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Muckle

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Muckle may refer to:

People

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  • Ansetta Muckle de Chabert (1908–1976), businesswoman and activist from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • John Muckle (born 1954), writer of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism

Places

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  • Muckle Bluff, a bluff on the south coast of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica
  • Muckle Flugga, a small rocky island north of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland
  • Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga, in Shetland, Scotland
  • Muckle Green Holm, uninhabited island in the North Isles of the Orkney archipelago in Scotland
  • Muckle Holm (disambiguation), the name of a number of islands in Orkney and Shetland
  • Muckle Holm, Yell Sound, small island in Shetland
  • Muckle Roe, island in Shetland, Scotland, in St. Magnus Bay, to the west of Mainland, Shetland
  • Muckle Skerry, the largest of the Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland
  • Muckle Ward, the highest hill in Vementry, an uninhabited island in Shetland, Scotland
  • Muckle Water, long, narrow fresh water loch on Ward Hill on Rousay, Orkney, Scotland

Other

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  • Muckle men or Finn-men were Inuit sighted around the north of Scotland
  • Muckle–Wells syndrome (urticaria-deafness-amyloidosis syndrome), a rare autosomal dominant disease
  • Muckle Snippeck or Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola), a medium-small wading bird in subarctic Eurasia
  • Muckle Spate (1829), flood in August 1829 which devastated much of Strathspey in northeast Scotland

See also

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