The Maiden Stack or Frau Stack is a tiny stack in the western Shetland Islands to the north of Brei Holm and east of Housa Voe about 140 metres (150 yd)...
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Newton, Dorset Maiden Stack, Shetland Maiden Stone, Pictish standing stone near Inverurie, Scotland Maiden Wells, Pembrokeshire Maidens, South Ayrshire...
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Great Stac of Handa. After his death when descending The Maiden in 1970 "most Scottish stack explorations abruptly ceased". There was then a hiatus of...
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Aesha Stack, Boinna Skerry, Borse Skerry, Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry, Forewick Holm, Galti Stacks, Holm of Melby, Koda Skerry, Lyra Skerry, Maiden Stack, Skerries...
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Voe. It is about a mile off Mainland, Shetland, and not far from the Maiden Stack.[citation needed] It was a leper colony until the 18th century, but it...
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Shetland Islands. It is not to be confused with the Maiden Stack, which is also known as "Frau Stack" It is to the west of Scat Ness and the village of...
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The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which...
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inhabited island of Papa Stour with its outliers Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry and Maiden Stack. Forewick Holm, and Holm of Melby lie in the Sound of Papa that separates...
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harbour for the island and the ferry's embarkation point. Brei Holm and Maiden Stack guard the harbour entrance to the south. The former is a tidal island...
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Marshall Amplification (redirect from Marshall Stack)
upwards, giving the Marshall stack a distinctive appearance. When a single cabinet is used, the complete unit is called a half stack. In the early-to-mid-1960s...
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