Bound Skerry

Bound Skerry Lighthouse
	Bound Skerry Lighthouse in 2009
Location	Bound Skerry; Out Skerries; Shetland; Scotland;
Coordinates	60°25′28″N 0°43′41″W / 60.424445°N 0.728064°W
Constructed	1854 (first)
Construction	masonry tower
Automated	1972
Height	30 metres (98 ft)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Operator	Northern Lighthouse Board
Light
First lit	1858 (current)
Focal height	44 metres (144 ft)
Range	20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi)
Characteristic	Fl W 20s.

Bound Skerry
Location
	Bound Skerry Bound Skerry shown within Scotland
OS grid reference	HU702719
Coordinates	60°26′N 0°43′W / 60.43°N 0.72°W
Physical geography
Island group	Out Skerries Shetland
Area	0.05 km²
Administration
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Scotland
Council area	Shetland Islands
Demographics
Population	0
References

An aerial view of Grunay with Bound Skerry in background

Bound Skerry is part of the Out Skerries group in the Shetland Islands. As well as being the most easterly island of that group, it is also the easternmost point of Scotland.

It has a lighthouse on it, which was built in 1857 at a cost of £21,000. Robert Louis Stevenson's family were lighthouse builders, and his signature can be seen in its guestbook.^[1] The keepers lived on nearby Grunay.

The island was bombed twice in World War II by the German Luftwaffe, because it was suspected to harbour a munitions factory.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
^ Ordnance Survey. OS Maps Online (Map). 1:25,000. Leisure.
^ Out Skerries The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 29 May 2016
^ Out Skerries Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 29 May 2016

External links

Northern Lighthouse Board

60°25′29″N 0°43′37″W / 60.42485°N 0.72686°W / 60.42485; -0.72686

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[Smith-1] Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.

[2] Ordnance Survey. OS Maps Online (Map). 1:25,000. Leisure.

[3] Out Skerries The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 29 May 2016

[4] Out Skerries Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 29 May 2016

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v t e Shetland
Inhabited islands	Mainland Bressay Burra East Burra West Burra Fair Isle Fetlar Foula Muckle Roe North Isles Out Skerries Papa Stour Trondra Unst Vaila Whalsay Yell
Other islands	Balta Bigga Brother Isle Colsay Hascosay Hildasay Lamba Linga, Bluemull Sound Linga, Busta Voe Linga (near Vementry) Linga, Vaila Sound Linga, Yell Sound Mousa Noss Oxna Papa Papa Little Samphrey South Havra St Ninian's Isle Uyea, Northmavine Uyea, Unst Vementry Ve Skerries West Linga
Towns and villages	Lerwick Aith Baltasound Bigton Bixter Brae Cunningsburgh Grutness Gulberwick Gutcher Haroldswick Hillswick Levenwick Mid Yell Mossbank North Roe Ollaberry Quarff Sandwick Scalloway Symbister Toab Toft Ulsta Uyeasound Vidlin Voe Walls Weisdale Whiteness
Mainland Parishes	Delting Dunrossness Lerwick Nesting Northmavine Sandsting Tingwall Walls and Sandness
Insular Parishes	Bressay Fetlar Unst Yell
Maritime features	Balta Sound Bluemull Sound Burra Voe Busta Voe Calder's Geo Ronas Voe St Magnus Bay Sullom Voe West Voe of Sumburgh Yell Sound
Extreme points (N S E W)	Out Stack The Skerry, off Fair Isle Bound Skerry Waster Hoevda, Foula
Topics	Animal breeds Etymology History Prehistory

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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