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Swona

uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth off the north coast of Scotland
Landform island Q1470309

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
island
Country
United Kingdom[4]
Part of
Orkney Islands[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 58.743°, -3.058°
Area
+92[10]
Historic county
Orkney Islands[12]
Length
+2[9]
Located in or next to body of water
Atlantic Ocean[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Orkney Islands, South Ronaldsay[2][3]
Located in/on physical feature
North Sea[7]
Population
+0[8]
Width
+1[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Swona ja スウォナ島 zh 斯沃納島
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Beacon on The Tarf, Swona - geograph.org.uk - 1234096.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/02k7ll
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2609286
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
features/featurefirst1758
GeoNames ID
2636366
TOID
4000000074610792
Vision of Britain place ID
26957
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "Swona::x8926"]

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United Kingdom
Historic county 1
Orkney Islands
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Atlantic Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Orkney Islands
Located in time zone 1
UTC±00:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
North Sea
Part of 1
Orkney Islands
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Summary

Swona is an island[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Orkney high0.94confirmed9 independent sources

evidence “The Gordonstoun pupils made the discovery on an archaeological field trip to Swona, a tiny Orkney island where only feral cattle live.” dailyrecord.co.uk · read source

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Located in the administrative territorial entity Orkney island low0.10contradicted6 independent sources

evidence “The Gordonstoun pupils made the discovery on an archaeological field trip to Swona, a tiny Orkney island where only feral cattle live.” dailyrecord.co.uk · read source

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eu', 'fr', 'gd', 'it', 'nn', 'no', 'sv', 'zh']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/58669|batch #58669]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 26w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Instance of → —
    Width → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+1'}
    Located in/on physical feature → North Sea
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Island", "Swona::x8926"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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