📌 Otterswick, Isle of Yell, Shetland Isles
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Clutching a Bible to her bosom, the White Wife of Otterswick gazes out into Otters Wick bay on the east side of Yell. She does so in memory 0f four crew members of the German ship Bohus, lost at sea when the vessel was shipwrecked on nearby rocks on 26 April 1924 – with 35 survivors. The original monument was the ship’s wooden figurehead, since replaced by a replica in fibreglass.
🌍 Location
📌 Access from minor road to Queyon, east side of Otterswick, Isle of Yell
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: HU 529853
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 60.547687,-1.037307
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Space to park at 🧭 HU 528857 / 🛰️ 60.550955,-1.039519 – leave space for vehicles to turn
⌚ Always viewable
🎫 Free
💬 From the parking spot it’s a 5-min walk to the monument, southeast and downhill on grassy field paths with boggy areas (signposted).
