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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BIGHT OF STACKABACK Bight of Stackaback Mr. John Forbes Schoolmaster Mr. Thomas Chalmers Lower Whitehall Mr, Robert Chalmers Papa Stronsay Stronsay 092 This name applies to al large sandy bay situated on the South west end of Papa Stronsay, and lying between the Point of the Grand and a point known as stack hillock a little south of Stackaback It is about one half mile north of Lower Whitehall
Papa stronsay is the property of Colonel Balfour Shapinshay
CORN GRAAND Corn Graand Mr. John Forbes Schoolmaster
Mr. Thomas Chalmers Lower Whitehall
Mr, Robert Chalmers Papa Stronsay Stronsay
092 This name applies to long narrow headland situated on the West end of Papa Stronsay dividing Harrigarth from the Bight of Stackaback. It varies in width from 10 yards to 200 towards the west end, and it's extreme length is about 700 yards It is covered with arable and rough pasture land

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