Gruney

This article covers an island in the northwest of the Shetland Islands. Not to be confused with Grunay in the east of the Shetlands.

Gruney
View from the Point of Fethaland to Gruney
Waters	Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago	Shetland Islands
Geographical location	60 ° 39 ′ 8 ″  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 39 ′ 8 ″  N , 1 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  W
length	380 m
width	350 m
surface	10 ha
Highest elevation	47  m
Residents	uninhabited

Gruney is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest to Scotland counting Shetlands . It is located about one and a half kilometers north of the Point of Fethaland , the northernmost point of the main island Mainland , in the North Atlantic . The almost square island has a length and width of around 300 meters each, its highest point is 47 meters. The Northern Lighthouse Board has been operating a now automated lighthouse on Gruney since 1976 .

Gruney is an important breeding ground for various species of seabirds . Together with the Ramna Stacks , a group of rock islands off the northwest, it is therefore designated under the name Ramna Stacks and Gruney as both a nature reserve ( SSSI ) and a protected area according to the EU Birds Directive (SPA). Both also fall under the SSSI Uyea - North Roe Coast . Gruney is also named for the geological formation Gruney and Fethaland , which is part of the Sumburgh group of the Old-Red sandstone from the middle Devonian .

Web links

Commons : Gruney  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry Gruney in the Gazetteer for Scotland (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lighthouses of Scotland: Shetland on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website , accessed July 5, 2018.
2. ↑ Information on the SSSI Ramna Stacks and Gruney on the Scottish Natural Heritage website , accessed on July 5, 2018 (English)
3. ↑ Information about the SPA Ramna Stacks and Gruney on the Scottish Natural Heritage website, accessed on July 5, 2018 (English)
4. ↑ Information on SSSI Uyea - North Roe Coast on the Scottish Natural Heritage website, accessed on July 5, 2018 (English)
5. ↑ Gruney And Fethaland Formation. Entry in the Lexicon of Named Rock Units on the British Geological Survey website , accessed July 5, 2018
6. ^ Sumburgh Group. Entry in the Lexicon of Named Rock Units on the British Geological Survey website, accessed July 5, 2018