Sule Skerry

Sule Skerry
Landing Site (1967)
Waters	Atlantic Ocean
Archipelago	Orkney Islands
Geographical location	59 ° 5 '3 "  N , 4 ° 24' 29"  W Coordinates: 59 ° 5 '3 "  N , 4 ° 24' 29"  W
length	800 m
width	300 m
surface	16 ha
Highest elevation	12  m
Residents	uninhabited
Sule Skerry with lighthouse, from the south (drawing)

Sule Skerry is a flat, grassy and uninhabited North Atlantic island in the west of the Scottish Orkney Islands . The island has an area of ​​16 hectares and reaches a height of 12 meters.

On the north coast of the small Sule- Skerry (Engl. Skerry ) is since 1895 the 27 meter high lighthouse Sule Skerry Lighthouse , which automates only since 1982 and is uninhabited.

About ten kilometers southwest of Sule Skerry is the smaller rock island Sule Stack , a 36 meter high rock needle with no vegetation . Both islands lie on the Skerry Bank , an otherwise submarine elevation.

Both islands are part of the UNESCO biosphere reserve known as " Sule Skerry and Sule Stack ".

Web links

Commons : Sule Skerry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sule Skerry Lighthouse (Engl.)

literature

• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 141, Scotland