Sule Stack
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| Sule Stack | |
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  Sule Stack
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| Sule Stack shown within Scotland. | |
| OS grid reference: | HX561179 |
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| Population (2001): | 0
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| Island Group: | North Atlantic |
| Local Authority: | Orkney |
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Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote volcanic stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.
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 west 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[4]:
- 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] References
- ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
- ^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
- ^ Ordnance Survey
- ^ European Environment Agency: Sule Skerry & Stack Skerry
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