Sunk Island is a Crown Estate village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Ottringham and 1-mile (1.6 km) to the north of the Humber Estuary. The Greenwich Meridian passes through the east of the parish.
According to the 2011 UK census, Sunk Island parish had a population of 228, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 224.
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“And they wrapped him up in an old cow’s hide,
And they sunk him in the Lowland sea,
And they sunk him in the Lowlands low.”
—Unknown. The Golden Vanity (l. 43–45)
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