Sule Stack

Sule Stack
Location
Sule Stack
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
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]:

See also

References

  1. ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
  2. ^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1841954543. 
  3. ^ Ordnance Survey
  4. ^ 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. 
  5. ^ European Environment Agency: Sule Skerry & Stack Skerry