Brough of Birsay

an uninhabited tidal island off the north-west coast of The Mainland of Orkney, Scotland
Landform island Q594381
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Brough of Birsay

Summary

Brough of Birsay is an island[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Brough of Birsay is located in Orkney Islands[3].
  • Brough of Birsay is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Brough of Birsay is on the body of water Atlantic Ocean[5].
  • Brough of Birsay's image is recorded as Brough of Birsay in summer 2012 (4).JPG[6].
  • Brough of Birsay's instance of is recorded as island[7].
  • Brough of Birsay's instance of is recorded as tidal island[8].
  • Brough of Birsay's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85017235[9].
  • Brough of Birsay's part of is recorded as Orkney Islands[10].
  • Brough of Birsay's Commons category is recorded as Brough of Birsay[11].
  • Brough of Birsay's located in time zone is recorded as UTC±00:00[12].
  • Brough of Birsay's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 59.136944444444, 'lon': -3.3352777777778}[13].
  • Brough of Birsay's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02dfzj[14].
  • Brough of Birsay's located in/on physical feature is recorded as Orkney Islands[15].
  • Brough of Birsay's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03240224n[16].
  • Brough of Birsay's TOID is recorded as 4000000074611433[17].
  • Brough of Birsay's Gazetteer for Scotland place ID is recorded as features/featurefirst1356[18].
  • Brough of Birsay's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as brough-of-birsay[19].
  • Brough of Birsay's historic county is recorded as Orkney Islands[20].
  • Brough of Birsay's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007292435705171[21].
  • Brough of Birsay's Yale LUX ID is recorded as place/947b4c70-1a5c-4cc2-ad50-a1817a4063c4[22].

Why It Matters

Brough of Birsay ranks in the top 6% of island entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (77 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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