Little Holm, Yell Sound

Lighthouse

60°33′25″N 1°15′52″W / 60.557051°N 1.264523°W / 60.557051; -1.264523TowerConstructed1976Foundationconcrete baseConstructionmetal skeletal towerAutomated1975Height7 metres (23 ft)Shapequadrangular tower covered by aluminium panels with light on the topMarkingswhite towerPower sourcesolar power

OperatorNorthern Lighthouse Board^[1]LightFocal height12 metres (39 ft)Range6 nmi (11 km; 6.9 mi)

CharacteristicIso W 4s.

Little Holm is a small island in Yell Sound, in Shetland, Scotland. It lies between Northmavine and the island of Yell.

There is a lighthouse here.

In 1983, the Royal Navy cleared ordnance from the area, and their bomb disposal team discovered an unrecorded shipwreck nearby. Its identity is still unknown.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Shetland". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
^ Shetlopedia: Unidentified Shipwrecks
^ Shetlopedia: Little Holm (Yell Sound)

External links

Northern Lighthouse Board

Yell, Shetland

Villages

Aywick
Burravoe
Copister
Cullivoe
Gloup
Gossabrough
Gutcher
Mid Yell
Otterswick
Ulsta
West Sandwick

Geography

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Lighthouse Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)