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A map of the island from 1947. Puffin Island is the ninth-largest island off the coast of Wales and marks the northeastern end of the Menai Strait.Puffin Island's highest point is carboniferous limestone, at 192 feet (59 m) above sea level, having steep cliffs on all sides.
Map of Skomer. Skomer (Welsh: Ynys Sgomer) or Skomer Island [1] is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, in the community of Marloes and St Brides [2] [3] in west Wales. It is well known for its wildlife: around half the world's population of Manx shearwaters nest on the island, the Atlantic puffin colony is the largest in southern Britain, and the Skomer vole (a subspecies of the bank ...
Puffins have been given several informal names including "clowns of the sea" and "sea parrots", and juvenile puffins may be called "pufflings". [71] Several islands have been named after the bird. The island of Lundy in the United Kingdom is reputed to derive its name from the Norse lund-ey or "puffin island". [72]
This is a list of islands of Wales, the mainland of which is part of Great Britain, ... Puffin Island: 0.11 0.28 11 Cardigan Island: 0.06 0.15
Trwyn Du Lighthouse, also known as Penmon Lighthouse, [3] is a lighthouse between Black Point near Penmon and Ynys Seiriol, or Puffin Island, at the eastern extremity of Anglesey, marking the passage between the two islands.
The island of Anglesey, at 261 square miles (676 km 2), is the largest in Wales and the Irish Sea, the seventh largest in Britain, and the sixth most populous island in Britain. The northern and eastern coasts of the island are rugged, and the southern and western coasts are generally gentler; the interior is gently undulating.
Roughly 100,000 puffins have flown back to the Isle of May, a small island on the east coast of Great Britain, to kick off mating season.
A map of Penmaenmawr from 1947. According to tradition, the 5th or 6th century saint Seiriol, after whom Ynys Seiriol, the Welsh name for Puffin Island or Priestholme, is named, had a hermit's cell in Cwm Graiglwyd. A declivity, Clipyn Seiriol, above the modern road tunnel through Penmaenmawr, also bears his name, as does the modern church of ...