Bound Skerry

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Bound Skerry
Location
Bound Skerry (Scotland)
Bound Skerry
Bound Skerry
Bound Skerry shown within Scotland.
OS grid reference: HU702719
Names
Gaelic name:


Area and Summit
Area:
Highest elevation:
Population
Population (2001): 0


Groupings
Island Group: Out Skerries Shetland
Local Authority: Shetland Islands
Scotland
References: [1][2]
An aerial view of Grunay with Bound Skerry in background
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 the 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 WWII by the Germans, who thought it was a munitions factory.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-454-3. 
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey
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