The Names Of The UK's Islands Explained

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SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Islands of the British Isles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Isle of Wight: www.visitisleofwight.co.uk/in....
Portsea: www.localhistories.org/portsea...
Hayling: www.havant.gov.uk/sites/defau...
Anglesey: www.snowdoniaguide.com/anglese....
Holy Island: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...
Foulness: www.echo-news.co.uk/news/loca...
Rathlin: www.romaneranames.uk/r/regaina...
Scilly: www.islesofscillyholidays.co.....
Tresco: www.jhluxton.com/England/The-...
Hebrides: www.academia.edu/1502702/Anci...
Skye: www.lonelyplanet.com/scotland...
Jura: www.undiscoveredscotland.co.u...
Benbecula: www.britannica.com/place/Benb...
Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com/placenames/o....
Orkney: www.orkneyjar.com/placenames/o....
Mainland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainlan...
Shetland: www.northlinkferries.co.uk/sh...
Crown Dependancies: www.royal.uk/crown-dependenci....
Isle of Man: www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMa....
Jersey: www.theislandwiki.org/index.p...
Guernsey: www.etymonline.com/word/guernsey
Eel Pie Island: londonist.com/london/features...

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@NameExplain 3 года назад

Is anyone watching from any of these islands? Also yes I know I say scilly at first when it's pronounced silly. How scilly of me.

@BigKazzYT 3 года назад

I’m watching from uk

@l0uisw3bb93 3 года назад

Watching from London but originally from the Isle of Wight. I believe the theory about the beaker people is correct, as the Romans renamed it "Vectis", from the Latin "Veho" meaning "lifting".

@kobostinywings 3 года назад

Augh, you missed out the other Channel Islands, Alderney (3rd largest) Sark (4th largest) and Herm (5th largest) of the Channel Islands. You've also got Brecqhou, Jethou and Lihou which are tiny. Also worth a mention would be Les Ecrehous and Les Minquiers off the cost of Jersey. All very different Islands and stunning in their own right. I'm from Jersey. Hello 👋

@bluemoro973 3 года назад

Im watching from the yellow rose of Texas, which is the nickname for Amarillo, Texas

@Daniel-vj9oq 3 года назад

The Island of Ireland.

@Figgy5119 3 года назад

In old english, eg would have been pronounced ey, so the leap from "portsey" to "portsea" is less strange than from "portsegg".

@dmonisammie1992 3 года назад

Just to jump on the pronunciation bandwagon, in Scotland, our Scots Gaelic is actually pronounced “GAH-LIK” (so that it sounds like someone from Boston in the US saying garlic)

@Ggdivhjkjl 3 года назад

The Isle of Skye is famous from the Skye Boat Song commemorating the night voyage of Bonnie Prince Charlie over there.

@sydhenderson6753 10 месяцев назад

And also for Skye terriers. And the Shetlands for the Shetland Sheepdog, one of which was owned by my family.

@justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 года назад

RU-vid is getting uncomfortable with these unskippable ads...

@Acteaon 3 года назад

Right! I came across an ad that was 55mins. I was like W😯W! It’s getting real bad.

@ShannaNL 3 года назад

Addblocker pro

@edmundthespiffing2920 3 года назад

@@Acteaon wtf!! What was the ad about ?

@shytownmofo 3 года назад

5 ads in a 12 minute video.....

@juliuskysar9337 3 года назад

Adblocker is your friend

@mcswordfish 3 года назад

As a Skyeman, I must insist that you retract the claim that Lewis and Harris is the 3rd largest island in the Atlantic Archipelago - they're only half an island each. Inter-island rivalry, I'd often thought that the name Lewis was related to the name McLeod - the Gàidhlig for Lewis is Leodhas, which could imply "Of Leod". However, in a dive down a wikipedian rabbit-hole, it appears this may be be a false-friend type situation (albeit there is a strong Leod/McLeod connection to Lewis) Finally, if you ever want voice recordings of the Gaidhlig names for places, people, or things for any future videos, I'd be happy to help. I don't ask for anything in return - I have nothing to promote or sell other than a desire to help strengthen and support the language.

@martenkats6915 3 года назад

Just a tiny addition on Skye, it has 2 names in Gaelic and had 2 similar names in Norse. One of them is "An t-Eilean Sgitheanach" which translates literally to "The Isle of Skye", but the other one is "Eilean a' Cheò" which means Isle of Mist, likely a translation from the Norse word "Skuy" which was the other Norse word to describe the island and translates to "Misty Isle".

@Bryzerse 3 года назад

Ahh yes, the Isles of Skilly.

@fraggit 3 года назад

Skilly..... don't be Scilly 😊

@jovanweismiller7114 3 года назад

My parents honeymooned on the Isle of Wight before my Dad returned to the States to be demobbed and Mum crossed the pond to join him. Oh, and BTW, both Jersey and Guernsey have breeds of dairy cattle named after them.

@moroccangeographer8993 3 года назад

The UK never ceases to be a hidden gem of a land!

@dobbykid 3 года назад

Surprised you never mentioned lindisfarne, small island off the coast of Northumberland that can only be accessed in low tide.

@isaac_aren 3 года назад

I would love to see a video on some of the Irish islands, though some of them have quite simple names such as "Cape Clear" and "Inis Mór (Big island)"

@cagliari5984 2 года назад

Same, my family is the last family to come from the island of Inishlacken. Would love to see what he can come with to find out about its name.

@The_Foxymew 3 года назад

What a wonderful video to get inspiration for island names from. Wanted to make some vaguely English inspired islands for my fantasy project and I got a bunch of good from this. Cheers.

@WUStLBear82 3 года назад

Guernsey and Jersey may be best known in the US for their eponymous breeds of milk cattle, which are ubiquitous in the East along with the German Holsteins

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

Schleswig Holstein is in Germany ( taken from the Danes ) but the cattle that founded the Holstein breed in the US were Dutch. In the UK the Holstein Society dropped it's honorary president - a Prince of Schleswig Holstein , and changed its name to Friesian in WW1.

@markberryhill2715 3 года назад

Also hog names York Berkshire and Hampshire.

@NorseNorman 2 года назад

There are plenty golden Jersey cows dotted around Jersey's country side and we have banned milk imports, so all our milk comes from them.

@briansmith9439 3 года назад

The Channel Islands, i.e. Jersey & Guernsey, are the only remnants of the Duchy of Normandy that remain under the British Royal Crown and this is why the Queen is also the Duke of Normandy (not Duchess). The Jersey - Cesear link, or lack thereof, is interesting as New Jersey is found named as Nova Cesearia in some colonial documents.

@vincentjennings6347 3 года назад

The Isle of Wight may have been named after Wihtgar an early West Saxon from about the 6th century. The people of Wight were known as the Wihtwara during later Saxon times.

@lillyd6149 3 года назад

Very interesting, thank you ⭐

@nightx4082 3 года назад

can you do the main 3 philippine islands like luzon visayas and mindanao tysm and i love your videos very much, theyre making my quarantine way less boring

@caseyround 4 месяца назад

I enjoyed that video thank you

@BeingTheHunt 3 года назад

I love these videos but one thing that always bothers me about the geography related ones is that the images of the places are often too zoomed in giving little to no context of where the place is.

@kandipiatkowski8589 Год назад

I was in Holyhead back in 2016. Just long enough to catch the ferry back to Dublin at the end of our vacation.

@WaterShowsProd 3 года назад

You beat me to the Craggy Island reference. Now you have to do a Name Explain of the various locations on Craggy Island.

@bethoniewaring 3 года назад

Really random, but I sometimes catch a bus that goes past a museum about Eel Pie Island (or something like a museum, it's been a while) and I've always wondered what on earth that was about. Thank you for explaining.

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

The mountains on Jura , are in fact called the Paps of Jura , and yes that means what you think it does!

@raceris7309 3 года назад

Strange, because Jura means sea in my native language (excluding the fact that 2nd letter is written differently)

@markmh835 3 года назад

This is not uncommon -- given that men do most of the naming of things, and sometimes simply name what they see. There used to be a pair of mountains in the USA named "Nellie's Nipples" until the government insisted that new names be given. Government workers have no sense of humor worldwide. 😒

@quakmy2446 3 года назад

Jura means udder or "the udder" in norwegian, which I believe he pointed to

@corvus1374 3 года назад

@@markmh835 Or the Grand Teton Mountains, which means ... yes, you get it.

@iapetusmccool 3 года назад

@@markmh835 how do you know they were named by men? I'm sure there are plenty of women who could look at a pair of mountains and say "ha ha, they look like boobies!" too.

@dambrooks7578 3 года назад

Cultural fact, The Rolling Stones used to play some of their early gigs in a pub on Eel Pie Island. Other than that I am surprised you didn't cover the previse island sections of Kent and London that have now become a connected part of the mainland from Isle of Thanet in Kent or the Isle of Dogs in London and so forth...

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 года назад

Me: Looking at 6:37 Also me, stuck in quarantine: Let me in, let me *innn*

@Terrus_38 3 года назад

Error: the miniature of the video has Hebrides named "Herbrides" xD They aren't her brides, neither his ;D

@laurelelasselin 3 года назад

I said that too!

@MayhemmiGunn 3 года назад

I've been interested in the Shetlands and Orkney Islands for quite a few years now, or ever since I discovered Norn, the extinct language of these islands, and how closely releated they are to my native Icelandic. In fact, there are name placenames that are still in use which come straight from Old Norse, of which Icelandic is a close relative. The Shetlands are still known as Hjaltlandseyjar (Hilt land Islands) in Icelandic, and even their motto is 'Með lögum skal land byggja", which is the same as the Icelandic police uses (By law should the land be built, or something along those lines). And the same goes for Hrossey, that could just as well be an Icelandic placename, as are many others.

@johnschwartz7527 3 года назад

Would love to see a video about all the place names around the world that were named after cities or places in the UK

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@MaxWelton 3 года назад

6:21 the only Briars I know are spelled differently. Princess Briar from the Bone comics and the town of Brier.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 года назад

I came up with all of these names

@pastordhariusdaniel3809 3 года назад

@HeroismOfRyan 3 года назад

I like the sick beats in the background

@ff_crafter 3 года назад

Nice video

@Alleykatukr 2 года назад

Brilliant

@michaelhaywood8262 2 года назад

You omitted the small island between Orkney and Shetland known as Fair Isle which is the most remote inhabited British Island.

@BigKazzYT 3 года назад

I’m not even subbed but this vid was only posted 2 mins ago

@legomach8134 2 года назад

You should do a part 2

@TotoDG 3 года назад

10:15. Any reference to the Railway Series gets an A+ in my book. ;)

@TimEaston 3 года назад

great video, I hadn't realised Portsmouth was on an island.

@Ceitag788 3 года назад

I'm from Lewis and yup it's pretty marshy/boggy here. Also I'm sad you missed out St. Kilda! That place is stunning

@bogsacheann240 3 года назад

The Isle of Lewis comes from Leòdhas in Gaelic, and I’m pretty sure that come from Norse, meaning house of Leod, hence the common name MacLeod on the island.

@veryblocky 3 года назад

You missed the island of Lindisfarne, which also goes by the name Holy Island. It’s a small tidal island off the Northumberland coast.

@DaGizmoGuy 3 года назад

The mainland of Shetland is NOT known as Shetland - Shetland only refers to the whole archipelago. The biggest island is just called "Mainland", though people don't tend to identify with the biggest island and just say they are from Shetland, referring to the whole group.

@corvus1374 3 года назад

How could you talk about the Shetlands and leave off Fair Isle, known for its sweaters? And how could you fail to mention the Calf of Mann?

@christheleper4378 3 года назад

I was brought up in Shetland, and we were always taught that Shetland was originally called Zetland, meaning end of the land, as romans (I think) got as far as Shetland and couldn't see any further islands. The postcodes there all start ZE which lends credibility to that explanation.

@Jess2abbie1 Год назад

Don't forget the isle of Portland off the south coast of dorset

@jonhaslam3699 3 года назад

What about the Isle of Sheppey and Mersea Island near Colchester to name but a couple?

@al_fletcher 3 года назад

0:28 So Patrick has chosen...death.

@Jess2abbie1 Год назад

Tresco without the R: Every little helps

@DavidWilliams-km5xu 3 года назад

Ever been to Brownsea Island in poole harbour.

@HalfEye79 3 года назад

I like the name of Skye. Thats because here is the small city of Syke.

@markelliot7072 3 года назад

You missed off Walney Island in Cumbria

@ewestner 3 года назад

Guernsey is also an article of clothing. It's a term for a type of sweater (or jumper, I suppose, if you're English). I also find it interesting that there are both Guernsey and Jersey cows.

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

There were Alderney cattle too , now extinct.

@ewestner 3 года назад

@@gavinparks5386 I saw that but until now didn't know there was also an island with that name.

@markberryhill2715 3 года назад

Milk cow's. Two of the best along with Holstein.

@sydhenderson6753 10 месяцев назад

But no Sark cows. (Sark got left out.)

@fififinance7469 3 года назад

Hard to strike a balance for natural looking make up and that can stand filming and lights, the more lighting I use on my channel the more challenging it is😍

@ZecaPinto1 3 года назад

2:46 You almost got a portus cale there

@davidcarney1533 3 года назад

Did you miss Lindisfarne?

@jamespigeon1399 3 года назад

islay?

@therongjr 3 года назад

It might be a bit contentious to include this in either a video associated with the United Kingdom or one with Ireland, but what about the islet of Rockall? I see the etymology is not as clear as I expected!

@corvus1374 3 года назад

The TV police show, Shetland, is recommended. It's a good show.

@isaacbobjork7053 3 года назад

It is Ynys Môn without an S in the end

@MichaelSidneyTimpson 3 года назад

you forgot Sark

@allanrichardson1468 3 года назад

Does Summerisle, the setting for the novel (and two movies) “The Wicker Man” exist in real life?

@SantomPh 3 года назад

it doesn't. The island shots are of the Isle of Skye and Isle of Whithorn while they filmed on locations in northern Scottish villages.

@allanrichardson1468 3 года назад

SantomPh What I suspected anyway. The scenery is quite beautiful in both versions of the movie. Was the ruined cathedral one of those raided by Vikings (like Lindesfarne), or one demolished by Henry VIII?

@molly.dog8brooke792 3 года назад

Allan Richardson I’ve never seen the movie, nor am I a historical expert... but I don’t think Henry 8th ruined Cathedrals, at least not intentionally, instead turning them Protestant after removing any signs of Catholicism? Monasteries and Friaries got different treatment, but I doubt Henry would’ve ruined Cathedrals that could’ve been useful? It could’ve been under him, but with my limited historical knowledge on the Reformation- it was likely done earlier (possibly vikings) or by looters/angry people during or after the Reformation?

@monkeymox2544 3 года назад

@@molly.dog8brooke792 No, Henry VIII did have most of the monasteries closed - it was called the dissolution of the monasteries. As part of this process they had their treasures and the buildings themselves taken as property of the crown, the monks and nuns were evicted, and most relics were destroyed. Henry sold many of the buildings, which were subsequently dismantled for valuable building material, which sometimes involved burning them first. Other monastic buildings were deliberately destroyed on Henry's orders, because doing so asserted his authority over that of the Papacy. As for earlier peoples, yes the Vikings did sack monasteries, but they were generally rebuilt. The monastery on Lindisfarne, for example, was still maintained as a monastery until the dissolution, despite having been famously sacked by viking raiders hundreds of years earlier.

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

@@monkeymox2544 Also Henry the 8th was never King of Scotland !

@KohanKilletz 3 года назад

Can you do a name explain for the cities of Lebanon and Syria? There is a very deep history there

@revmedia8108 3 года назад

Can you do the explanation of the name Rev Media?

@philipsutton5652 3 года назад

Would Holy Island (Lindisfarne) in the north east count for this list?

@SantomPh 3 года назад

it's not that well known apart from the sacking of the monasteries.

@martynnotman3467 3 года назад

@@SantomPh that depends where you are from. Its far better known than any of the Southern Islands up here

@charlieowen974 3 года назад

You have a plaque on the wall in the highschool you went to of your RU-vid channel

@jackwatsonepic626 3 года назад

I always thought they called it the Isles of Scilly not skilly

@ieuanpugh-jones5284 3 года назад

Mon does not come from mona-. Rather Mona comes from Celtic *monaw/manaw meaning high/elevated by extension holy. It is of tha same origin as Man/manaw/Mannin. Its related to the word mountain. You should look at Britonic Language in the Old North.

@Myrtle2911 3 года назад

Didn't Jersey and Guernsey lend their names to breeds of cows?

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

Yes and there was even a third breed called Alderney - now extinct. I think the Nazis ate the last of them.

@andrewclayton4181 3 года назад

Isles of Scilly. St. Agnes is a corruption, and the St was only added to match Marys and Martins. It got its name from an old Cornish word Ignes meaning headland.

@TheInkPitOx 3 года назад

When I first saw the name Heberdes I pronounced it Her Brides

@dixgun 3 года назад

Is there a Tesco in Tresco? ... I'll get me coat.

@helpmeget1ksubswith1videop72 3 года назад

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@justsomepersononyoutube9271 3 года назад

Yeah and your a big bot

@FinkerMcBinker 3 года назад

1:45 possibly the most famous island

@Mattteus 3 года назад

6:17 are you mooning us??

@parco7735 3 года назад

😭😭😭😭😭 Lundy island wasn’t mentioned it’s my local one

@jordanferrazza8700 3 года назад

Does UK have any Montreal-style islands?

@Captain_Yorkie1 3 года назад

Probably

@jordanferrazza8700 3 года назад

Captain Yorkie YT I know there’s like a famous promontory somewhere

@gubjorggisladottir3525 3 года назад

Did you know that Iceland is called Ísland (sometimes written as Island) in Icelandic? I have wondered over this for a while now. Lets start with the name of Iceland... "Ís" in Icelandic means just that... Ice. So why my country is called Iceland in English, is just the "real" or "original" name translated into English. But why is an bit of a land called "island" in English? English has the word "Isle" In Icelandic (and old Nordic) a "small bit of land, surrounded by water or sea" i.e. an island is called "EY" or "Eyja" many of them called "Eyjar" And that is exactly why so many islands about Britain are called "*ey" "*" is here being used to mean the "true" name of the place. "Ey" (or "ey") is used - not "island" Ireland and Britain are islands... and so is Iceland... and Áland...

@pastordhariusdaniel3809 3 года назад

@firesurfer 3 года назад

Accent is a bit thick. i suggest turning on captions and slowing speed in settings-speed-custom- 0.85

@Illumisepoolist 3 года назад

Jersey!!!!!

@jordanferrazza8700 3 года назад

According to Paradox Interactive, apparently Scotland was originally split in half. The music has Europa Universalis vibes

@SantomPh 3 года назад

originally, like England and Ireland there were petty kingdoms that carved up the territory.

@jordanferrazza8700 3 года назад

@@SantomPh pretty or petty?

@Santeri349 3 года назад

Petty, as in "minor"

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

@@SantomPh Geologically speaking the part of Scotland north and west of the Great Glen ( which contains Loch Ness) was part of north west Canada - the rocks match.

@kets4443 2 года назад

yes, the picts and gaels

@altair8598 3 года назад

Sark? Alderney? Brownsea? Arran? Sheppey? Lundy? All inhabited. Lots of gaps here! (Were you born an Americanbut living in West Sussex? The way you pronounce Derby and Berkshire suggests so.)

@markberryhill2715 3 года назад

Luv it as an American. I've always wanted to visit y'all and drive around the countryside honking the horn and yelling at anybody driving bad and call them a stupid American. The ultimate insult.

@VulcanFuam 3 года назад

You forgot to mention Danny Wallace's attempted invasion of Eel Pie Island on "How to Build Your Own Country" 😂

@KingsleyIII 3 года назад

The way you say "Ireland" and "island" sound the same. I found you talking about both at once a bit confusing.

@dobbykid 3 года назад

Are you british? We're from the UK and don't really pronounce our "R"s so they would sound the same :)

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

@@dobbykid TDLR guy does the same and it's annoying to a Scots ear ( that would be a lug of course ! )

@Maurice-Navel 3 года назад

Sark?

@t71024 3 года назад

Gosh, I have apparently been mispronouncing "archipelago" and the "Hebrides".

@ziadbe9970 2 года назад

The Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar and the British Overseas Territories are all self-governing territories of the British Crown and are not independent states

@martinhughes2549 3 года назад

Ynys Gybi is known in English as "Holy island" btw.

@nicolasmartin-minaret6157 Год назад

Ynys Môn, not *Mons. And the "Roman" name was just a transliteration of the Celtic name (likely same meaning as Man)

@gavinparks5386 3 года назад

Disappointed you resisted the temptation of Muck , Rum and Eigg.

@pastordhariusdaniel3809 3 года назад

@dulcimerrafi 3 года назад

TIL I've been mispronouncing Hebrides in my head all my life.

@lawrencehaguehague8356 3 года назад

you rewmind me of monty python very well we shall welease woderwick

@blomakranz 3 года назад

Also not to forget basically all islands that end with "ey"(or a variation) are Germanic in origin even if the first part mayve been stolen from other language groups