Sule Stack
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| Sule Stack | |
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| Location | |
 Sule Stack
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| Sule Stack shown within Scotland | |
| OS grid reference | HX561179 |
| Area and summit | |
| Area | 2.9 ha |
| Highest elevation | 36 m |
| Population | |
| Population | 0 |
| Groupings | |
| Island group | North Atlantic |
| Local Authority | Orkney |
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| References | [1][2][3] |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census. | |
Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote island or stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. It is formed of Lewisian gneiss.[4]
Sule Stack lies 66 kilometres west of the Orkney mainland at grid reference HX561179. Sule Stack's sole neighbour, Sule Skerry, lies 10 km to the north east and the remote islands of Rona and Sula Sgeir lie further to the west.
Sule Stack and Sule Skerry are home to thousands of Gannets and as a result are listed as a Special Protection Area.
Sule Stack comes within the administrative region of Orkney Islands.
Bird species nesting on the stack include[5]:
- Razorbill Alca torda
- Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica
- Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
- Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus
- Common Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
- Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Northern Gannet Morus bassanus
- Common Guillemot Uria aalge
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
- ^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1841954543.
- ^ Ordnance Survey
- ^ Kirton, S.R.; Hitchen, K. (1987). "Timing and style of crustal extension N of the Scottish mainland". In Coward M.P., Dewey J.F. & Hancock P.L.. Continental Extensional Tectonics. Special Publications. 28. London: Geological Society. pp. 501–510. ISBN 9780632016051. http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/501.
- ^ European Environment Agency: Sule Skerry & Stack Skerry
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