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Notes
*Ordnance Survey Map, Landranger, United Kingdom, 1:50,000 (2002)
* G.T, Masters, "Orkney, Approaches to Kirkwall", HMS official survey map, 1840-1843
*C.M Hogan, "Natural History of the Orkney Islands" (2006)
External links
* [http://www.orkney.org/islands/shapinsay.htm Shapinsay Island, Orkney]
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