Bound Skerry

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View over Grunay on Bound Skerry with the lighthouse.

Bound Skerry is an uninhabited island in the east of the Out Skerries , an archipelago that belongs to the Shetlands . It also marks the easternmost point of Scotland . Bound Skerry includes two peninsulas, Tamma Skerry in the south and Little Bound Skerry in the north-west. On the island is the Out Skerries Lighthouse , a lighthouse completed in 1858, which has been designated as a Category B Listed Building since 1971 and is therefore a listed building. Until its automation in 1972, the keepers of the tower lived on the island of Grunay, a little to the south-west .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Out Skerries, Bound Skerry, Bound Skerry lighthouse. Entry in Historic Environment Scotland's Listed Property Database , accessed May 27, 2018. (English)
  2. ↑ Out Skerries Lighthouse on the Northern Lighthouse Board website , accessed May 27, 2018. (English)
  3. ↑ Grunay's entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland, accessed on May 27, 2018.

Coordinates: 60 ° 25 ′ 28 "  N , 0 ° 43 ′ 38"  W.