Papa Stronsay, an island of Stronsay and Eday parish, Orkney, lying off the NE of Stronsay island, and separated from it by Papa Sound, ¼ mile broad at the narrowest. With a very irregular outline, it has an utmost length and breadth of ¾ mile; is low and flat; has so fertile a soil as might render it, under proper management, one continuous cornfield; and contains vestiges of two pre-Reformation chapels and the site of an ancient burying-ground. Pop. (1861) 18, (1871) 32, (1881) 23.
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