Inchmickery

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Inchmickery is a small, uninhabited island in Scotland notable for its World War-era military fortifications that make it resemble a battleship from a distance.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Inchmickery canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf island ⓘ
tidal island ⓘ
uninhabited island ⓘ
country Scotland ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
hasCharacteristic heavily fortified ⓘ
rocky ⓘ
small ⓘ
uninhabited ⓘ
hasEcosystemType seabird habitat ⓘ
hasStructure concrete bunkers ⓘ
gun emplacements ⓘ
jetty ⓘ
magazines ⓘ
observation posts ⓘ
hasVegetation coastal grassland ⓘ
maritime plants ⓘ
hasWildlife common eider ⓘ
cormorants ⓘ
gulls ⓘ
seabirds ⓘ
terns ⓘ
locatedIn Firth of Forth ⓘ
North Sea ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Edinburgh ⓘ
surface form: City of Edinburgh
locatedNear Cramond Island ⓘ
Edinburgh ⓘ
Forth Bridge ⓘ
Inchcolm ⓘ
nameEtymology Cramond Island ⓘ
surface form: Innis nam Biocaire (island of the vicar or island of the beehives)

derived from Scottish Gaelic ⓘ
notableFor World War I military fortifications ⓘ
World War II military fortifications ⓘ
resembling a battleship from a distance ⓘ
partOf Cramond Island ⓘ
surface form: Islands of the Forth
protectedStatus bird sanctuary ⓘ
wildlife reserve ⓘ
usedDuring World War I ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
usedFor artillery battery site ⓘ
coastal defence ⓘ
defence of the Firth of Forth ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Firth of Forth → hasIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Cramond Island → hasViewOf → Inchmickery ⓘ
Cramond Island → hasNearbyIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Inchkeith → hasNearbyIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Forth estuary → hasIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
River Forth → hasEstuarineIslands → Inchmickery ⓘ
Inchcolm Island → nearbyIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Firth of Forth coastline → hasIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Forth Islands → hasIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ
Islands of the Forth → hasIsland → Inchmickery ⓘ