Switha

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Switha is a small, uninhabited rocky island in the Scottish Orkney archipelago, which lies outside the bay of Scapa Flow, south east of the island of Flotta and South Walls Peninsula.

It has an area of 41 hectares and reaches its maximum height of 28 meters near the cliff to the south. It is 1400 meters long and up to 580 meters wide. It is used as pasture for sheep. There are no records to indicate that the island was ever inhabited. However, show menhirs and a cairn that the island was visited in prehistoric times.

Switha has many caves and Petrel is a wintering area for a colony of barnacle geese.

HMS Switha is the name of a set as a target and 1981 sunken trawler the Isles class.

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