Glims Holm

Glims Holm

Infobox Scottish island


GridReference=ND472991
latitude=58.88
longitude=-2.91
celtic name=
norse name=Glums Holm
meaning of name=
area=55ha
area rank=185=
highest elevation=32 m
Population=0
population rank=
main settlement=
island group=Orkney
local authority=Orkney Islands
references= [2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland] Haswell-Smith] [ [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey] ]

Glims Holm (OS: Glimps Holm; Old Norse: "Glums Holm" [Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) "Orkneyinga Saga". Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ISBN 0-901824-25-9] ) is a small uninhabited islet in Orkney, Scotland.

History

It is linked by the Churchill Barriers to Orkney Mainland, Lamb Holm, Burray and South Ronaldsay. The causeways were built during World War II, largely by Italian prisoners of war, stationed in camp 60 on Lamb Holm.

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