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Examples from elsewhere in Orkney are the Vinquoy cairn, found at an elevated location on the north end of the island of Eday and Quoyness on Sanday constructed about 2900 BC and which is surrounded by an arc of Bronze Age mounds.
There are some 20 buildings on Canna and Sanday, including three churches, one of which has been deconsecrated ( see below ).
Written records are few, but the Viking occupation of Canna is evident from place names such as the element sgor, gearaid ( enclosure ), tota ( homestead ) and Sanday (" sand island "), although the name " Canna " may pre-date the Norse period.
There are populations records going back to the 16th century, the earliest of which combine Canna and Sanday.
Canna and Sanday form a single community, and are usually described as Canna.
Whereas Canna is run by the NTS as a single farm, parts of Sanday are used for crofting.
A small primary school on Sanday serves the communities of both islands, and currently ( 2009 ) has four pupils, of whom two are the children of the teacher.

Sanday and part
The largest and most conspicuous building on Sanday is the deconsecrated Catholic church of St Edward, which stands alone on an elevated part of the island, away from the cottages which, together with the school, cluster around the bay facing Canna.

Sanday and found
The tomb of Quoyness is found on Sanday, while Vinquoy Hill is located on Eday.
* The Scar boat burial-a Viking burial found on Sanday, one the Orkney Islands
The geographic distribution on Orkney of the two pottery types is as follows: grooved ware is found on Mainland, Sanday, and North Ronaldsay, with Unstan ware found on Mainland and the remaining islands, especially Rousay and Eday.

Sanday and Scotland
* Matthew Armour ( 1820 – 1903 ), Sanday ’ s radical Free Kirk Minister who lived at The West Manse ( formerly the Free Church of Scotland manse ) for over half a century
Peat extraction was also an important industry in the past as Sanday and North Ronaldsay obtained most of their fuel from Eday and this material was also exported to whisky distilleries on mainland Scotland.
File: West Manse Sanday. jpg | The West Manse, Sanday, Scotland ( formerly the Free Kirk manse ).
The West Manse, Sanday, Orkney | Sanday, Orkney, Scotland ( formerly the Free Church of Scotland ( 1843-1900 ) | Free Kirk manse )
* Start Point, Sanday, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland

Sanday and .
" Similarly, Peggy Reeves Sanday ( 2004 ) favors redefining and reintroducing the word matriarchy, especially in reference to contemporary matrilineal societies such as the Minangkabau.
The Two-Source Hypothesis crossed the channel into England in the 1880s primarily due to the efforts of William Sanday, culminating in B. H. Streeter's definitive statement of the case in 1924.
* William Sanday, The Text of the Codex Rossanensis ( Σ ) Studia biblica, 1 Oxford 1885, S. 103-112.
# John Sanday, quoted by Denis D. Gray in Nations ' trials meant to prevent errors during restoration of Angkor
It is linked to the neighbouring island of Sanday by a road and sandbanks at low tide.
The previous footbridge to Sanday was destroyed by storms during 2005, and has recently been replaced by a road bridge.
This allows vehicular access at all tide levels for the first time, although the road on Sanday is still covered by high tides.
A large natural harbour is formed between Canna and Sanday.
The post-clearance population is recorded as 57 in 1881 ( with a further 62 on Sanday ), in which year MacNeil sold to Robert Thom, a ship owner from Glasgow.
Sanday ( Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh ) is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.
This new bridge allows vehicular access at all tide levels between the two islands, although the road on Sanday is still covered by water during high tides.
The church now belongs to the Hebridean Trust, which converted it into a hostel and study centre, linked to the archive of Gaelic culture and folklore created by the former owner of Canna and Sanday, the late John Lorne Campbell.
Initially located in the grounds of Sanday School, the wind-logger will be placed in various positions around the island for a month at a time to compare differences in wind speed with those recorded at the school.

includes and rocks
; Cryptoendolith: An organism that lives in microscopic spaces within rocks, such as pores between aggregate grains ; these may also be called Endolith, a term that also includes organisms populating fissures, aquifers, and faults filled with groundwater in the deep subsurface.
This system includes the near-surface rocks, the soil, and the atmosphere.
One of these groups comes from the Moon, and includes rocks similar to those brought back to Earth by Apollo and Luna programs.
This fourth miscellaneous category includes rocks formed by Pyroclastic flows, impact breccias, volcanic breccias, and other relatively uncommon processes.
For instance, the Ridge and Valley, which lies in the northwest corner of the state, includes limestone, sandstone, shale and other sedimentary rocks, which have yielded construction-grade limestone, barite, ocher and small amounts of coal.
The underlying rocks of the West African craton are covered in the northwest by sediments of the Taoudeni basin, with two main outcrops of crystalline rocks in the northern Reguibat shield in Mauritania and the southern Leo shield which includes the Bougouni and Kaneiba outcrops, both of which contain valuable minerals.
It includes all phenomena resulting from and causing magma within the crust or mantle of a planet to rise through the crust and form volcanic rocks on the surface.
The Irish Sea area includes a large number of offshore rocks and islands and is notorious for strong tides.
( Tobacco Root Range, Highlands Mountains, McCartney Mountain, The Pioneers, The Ruby Range, The Gravellies and the Snowcrest Range ) The geology of the area includes some of the oldest rocks dating back over 2. 7 billion years.
This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines,
The group includes three main islands: Young, Buckle and Sturge, which lie in a line from northwest to southeast, and several smaller islets and rocks:
Bruce Peninsula National Park also offers visitors vistas to view either the sunrise or sunset, the rocks of the Niagara Escarpment, and the wildlife, which includes black bear, many species of birds, wild orchids, massassauga rattlesnake, and much more.
Lithification includes all the processes which convert unconsolidated sediments into sedimentary rocks.
Its food includes insects and other small creatures, and it nests in trees, marshes or rocks.
The three-dimensional fighting includes the ability to use special attacks as well as to pick up and fight with such objects as tables, chairs, rocks and bombs.
Earth materials is a general term that includes minerals, rocks, soil and water.
The Chilterns are part of a system of chalk downlands throughout eastern and southern England, formed between 65 and 95 million years ago, and comprising rocks of the Chalk Group and which also includes Salisbury Plain, Cranborne Chase, the Isle of Wight and the South Downs, in the south.
The family includes species that live amongst rocks, some that live in trees, and one that inhabits sand dunes.
The exposed geology of the Yosemite area includes primarily granitic rocks with some older metamorphic rock.
The familiar red colour of these rocks arises from the presence of iron oxide but not all the Old Red Sandstone is red or sandstone — the sequence also includes conglomerates, mudstones, siltstones and thin limestones and colours can range from grey and green through red to purple.
The nesting bird group includes a community of birds inhabiting rocks and cliffs in the canyons of Velika Paklenica and Mala Paklenica, with 24 bird species.
This bedrock includes both metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks and several generations of granitoids, and hosts the Bergslagen ore deposits ( iron and sulfide ores ), the Skellefte ( sulfides ) and Norrbotten ( iron and sulfide ores ) districts.
It includes the only part of Cornwall that is formed of carboniferous rocks, the northern area of North Cornwall District.
The terrain for backcountry sledding includes gladed powder-filled steeps, open mountain bowls, cliff-filled ridges, and basically anywhere that one finds the powder, steeps, rocks and trees.

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