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{{distinguish|Uyea, Northmavine}}
{{Infobox island
|name=Uyea
|county=Shetland
|picture=Uyea Isle.jpg
|picture caption=View over Uyeasound from Uyea
|latitude=60.6667
|longitude=-00.900
|os grid ref=HU600994
|area=507 acres
|highest point=The Ward, 164 feet
|population=0
}}
'''Uyea''' is an uninhabited island, lying south of [[Unst]] in [[Shetland]].  It is one of two islands of Shetland with the same name (the other lying off [[Unst]]); the meaning is uncertain but it may be from the Old Norse "sacred place".

==History==
The island was inhabited as early as the Bronze Age, and a chambered cairn can still be seen.

In the 12th century, Saint Olaf's chapel overlooking [[Brei Wick]] was built.

In 1745, two girls from Uyea rowed to the small island of [[Haaf Gruney]] to milk some of the cows grazing here. Unfortunately, their return was marred by a strong storm, and eventually they found their tiny boat blown to Karmøy in south west Norway. The Uyea girls ended up marrying Karmøy men, and their descendants still live there.{{ref Haswell-Smith}}

Jack Priest, in his evocative memoir of the isle during Second World War, describes it as "a beachcomber's dream - washed as it is with a westerly Atlantic tide through Bluemull Sound, fed from the east by waters of the Norwegian basin and finally the [[North Sea]] pressing up from among the isles through the narrow channel between [[Yell]] and [[Fetlar]] and feeding Colgrave Sound on the south side of Uyea Isle."<ref name=Priest>Priest, Jack ''Island at War'' (1994)</ref>

The island was the home of Sir Basil Neven-Spence, Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland from 1935 to 1950.

[[File:Uyea Hall.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Uyea Hall]]

==Outside links==
*[http://www.rockstanza.info/northmavine/uyea "Brochs and photos from Shetland, UK"] Licenced under the GNU Free Documentation Licence

==References==
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