Brother Isle

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Brother Isle
Location
Brother Isle Brother Isle shown within Shetland
OS grid reference	HU425815
Names
Norse name	breiðare øy
Meaning of name	broad beach island
Area and summit
Area	40 hectares (99 acres)
Area rank	219=^[1]
Highest elevation	25 metres (82 ft)
Population
Population	0
Groupings
Island group	Shetland
Local Authority	Shetland Islands

References	^[2]^[3]^[4]

There is also a Brother Island in El Nido, Palawan in the Philippines.

Brother Isle (Old Norse: breiðare øy meaning broad beach island) is a small, uninhabited island in Shetland, Scotland. It lies between the islands of Yell and Shetland Mainland. It is 40 hectares (99 acres) in size.

Geography and geology

The island's rock is "undifferentiated moine gneiss and quartzite."^[3]

History

It is sometimes assumed that the "Brother" in the name refers to Culdees/papar who were frequent inhabitants of the smaller islands, however, in this case there is no apparent evidence for this claim, and it would appear to be merely folk etymology.

At only 40 hectares in size (about 1/6 of a sq. mile) and surrounded by tidal rips which make landing difficult, it would seem unlikely that the island has ever been inhabited. However, Brother Isle was inhabited until the 1820s, latterly by brothers with the surname Tulloch. This led to the mistaken assumption that the island's name referred to them.

In 2004, a lighthouse was built on the island.

References

↑ Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands >20ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
↑ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
↑ 3.0 3.1 Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
↑ Ordnance Survey. Get-a-map (Map). http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/.

v t e Yell, Shetland

Villages	Aywick Brough 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 Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board

Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry 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 Rona 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 Lighthouse 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)

Coordinates: 60°30′54″N 1°13′40″W / 60.51489°N 1.22783°W / 60.51489; -1.22783

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