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Hoy is a Orkney Islands, Scotland. With an area of 55 square miles, is the second largest of the Orkney Islands after the Continent. It is connected by a causeway called The Walls Ayre to the South, to the south. Exceptionally, the two islands are treated as an entity by the United Kingdom census.
The dramatic coast of Hoy is what normally receives visitors travelling by cars in Scotland to the Orkney Islands by ferry from the Scottish mainland. It has extremes of many kinds, some of the highest cliffs in the UK in St John's Head, the impressive and famous March stack, the Old Man of Hoy, some of the most northerly natural forest surviving in the British Isles, the remote possibility that Arctic Char Heldale Water and survive in the most northern Martello Towers, which were built to protect the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.
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