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Old Man of Hoy

Old Man of Hoy
On Hoy’s windswept western coast stands the Old Man of Hoy, a 137-m (450-ft) high column of sandstone perched on a volcanic base. Hoy is the second-largest island in the Orkney Islands, which lie northeast of the Scottish mainland.
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Scotland; Orkney Islands
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