Lamba, Shetland

Lamba
Old Norse name	Lambey
	; Beacon at south-west of Lamba
Location
	Lamba Lamba shown within Shetland
OS grid reference	HU390816
Coordinates	60°31′N 1°17′W / 60.52°N 1.29°W
Physical geography
Island group	Shetland
Area	43 ha (0.17 sq mi)
Area rank	215
Highest elevation	35 m (115 ft)
Administration
Council area	Shetland Islands
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Demographics
Population	0
References

Lamba is an uninhabited island in Yell Sound in Shetland. It lies 1.5 km (0.93 mi) north of the entrance to the Sullom Voe inlet and 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) east of the Mainland coastline near Ollaberry. Rising 35 metres above sea level, it has an area of 43 hectares (0.17 sq mi). Its main features are a 27m high light marking the entrance to Sullom Voe,^[5] and an adjacent communications mast.

There are similarly named places, Lamba in the Faroe Islands and Lambay in Ireland.

60°31′00″N 1°17′26″W / 60.516581°N 1.290622°W / 60.516581; -1.290622

Footnotes

^ Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
^ National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland's Inhabited Islands" (PDF). Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland Release 1C (Part Two) (PDF) (Report). SG/2013/126. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
^ Ordnance Survey. OS Maps Online (Map). 1:25,000. Leisure.
^ "Overview of The Lamb". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 4 October 2008.

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[RankNote-1] Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.

[2] National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland's Inhabited Islands" (PDF). Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland Release 1C (Part Two) (PDF) (Report). SG/2013/126. Retrieved 14 August 2020.

[Smith-3] Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.

[OS-4] Ordnance Survey. OS Maps Online (Map). 1:25,000. Leisure.

[5] "Overview of The Lamb". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 4 October 2008.

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v t e Yell, Shetland
Villages	Aywick Burravoe Copister Cullivoe Gloup Gossabrough Gutcher Mid Yell Otterswick Ulsta West Sandwick
Geography	Bigga Brother Isle Fish Holm Lamba Linga Little Holm Little Roe Lunna Holm Muckle Holm Orfasay Ramna Stacks Samphrey Uynarey Yell Sound

v t e Shetland
Inhabited islands	Mainland Bressay Burra East Burra West Burra Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Muckle Roe North Isles Out Skerries Papa Stour Trondra Unst Vaila Whalsay Yell
Other islands	Balta Bigga Brother Isle Colsay Hascosay Hildasay Lamba Linga, Bluemull Sound Linga, Busta Voe Linga (near Vementry) Linga, Vaila Sound Linga, Yell Sound Mousa Noss Oxna Papa Papa Little Samphrey South Havra St Ninian's Isle Uyea, Northmavine Uyea, Unst Vementry Ve Skerries West Linga
Towns and villages	Lerwick Aith Baltasound Bigton Bixter Brae Cunningsburgh Grutness Gulberwick Gutcher Haroldswick Hillswick Levenwick Mid Yell Mossbank North Roe Ollaberry Quarff Sandwick Scalloway Symbister Toab Toft Ulsta Uyeasound Vidlin Voe Walls Weisdale Whiteness
Mainland Parishes	Delting Dunrossness Lerwick Nesting Northmavine Sandsting Tingwall Walls and Sandness
Insular Parishes	Bressay Fetlar Unst Yell
Maritime features	Balta Sound Bluemull Sound Burra Voe Busta Voe Calder's Geo Ronas Voe St Magnus Bay Sullom Voe West Voe of Sumburgh Yell Sound
Extreme points (N S E W)	Out Stack The Skerry, off Fair Isle Bound Skerry Waster Hoevda, Foula
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