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Skaw is a tiny settlement on the Shetland island of Unst. It is located north of Haroldswick on a peninsula in the northeast corner of the island, and is the most northerly settlement in the United Kingdom. The burn (stream) of Skaw flows from the uplands to the west through the constellation of small crofts that make up Skaw, and then east into the Wick of Skaw, a bay of the North Sea. A sheltered sandy beach lines the coast of the Wick of Skaw.
During World War II, the Royal Air Force built a Chain Home radar station at Skaw. A combined Coastal Defence U-Boat and Chain Home Low station was also built at Saxa Vord; after the war this became a ROTOR radar station. RAF Saxa Vord continued as a radar station after the end of the ROTOR programme.
The unclassified road from the B9087 to Skaw is the most northerly road in the UK road network.
Walter Sutherland, a former inhabitant of the northernmost cottage in the UK, was reportedly the last native speaker of the Norn language.
Usage examples of "skaw".
I saved the old stand off there in Cumberland by the sea, where you can see the snow on Skaw Fell?
Her mind flashed back through the years to the time when she was a girl, and visited old friends of her father in a castle looking towards Skaw Fell, above the long valley of the Nidd.
That high green terrace of Cumberland, the mist on Skaw Fell, the sun out over the sea, they were in her eyes.
Some of his best poems are about the Skaw fishermen, and later in life he settled down among them, dying at Skagen in 1907.
Clement, the Skaw fishermen have given an exquisite model of a ship to the church.
It was made in Holland for Peter the Great, but the ship which carried it was wrecked near Grenen, and the model was saved by the Skaw fishermen.
Two hours later, past the Skaw and across the South Savanna, Schaine saw her home.
The shortest crossing to Norway is from the Skaw at the tip of Vendsyssel.
The low headland was called the Skaw and it showed dull and misty in the gray twilight.
The frigate had seen few other ships between Harwich and the Skaw, merely a handful of fishing boats and a wallowing Baltic trader with her main deck heavily laden with timber, but now, sailing into the narrowing gut between Denmark and Sweden, the traffic was heavier.
Golden Glacier and James Skaw and the supposedly ice-imbedded herd of mammoths, and then publicly forced us to investigate this hoax.
For one horrid instant temptation assailed me to press the button before James Skaw could lead the hammock-mules up to the moraine.
Bottomly and James Skaw were feasting connubially side by side, and she was selecting titbits for him which he dutifully swallowed, his large mild eyes gazing at vacancy in a gentle, surprised sort of way as he gulped down what she offered him.
Except for the distant mournful skaw of a pterodon, it was just too damned quiet.
But as they rode south toward the Skaws she conceded that the precaution was probably well taken.