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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limp from dragging a plow sunk in mud,
the slattern curses the rains,
her pleasures unfinished.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
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