Column stack
Sule Stack (Stack Skerry) |
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Sule Stack appears as a double rock from the west | ||
Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
Archipelago | Orkney Islands | |
Geographical location | 59 ° 1 ′ 20 " N , 4 ° 30 ′ 1" W | |
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length | 300 m | |
width | 150 m | |
surface | 2.9 ha | |
Highest elevation | 36 m | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Landing Site (1967) |
Sule Stack , also Stack Skerry (English stack = rock needle , skerry = archipelago ), is a steep, rocky and uninhabited North Atlantic island in the west of the Scottish Orkney Islands . The island has an area of 2.9 hectares and reaches a height of 36 meters.
About ten kilometers northeast of Sule Stack is the larger island of Sule Skerry , a flat and grassy island with a lighthouse . Both islands are on the Skerry Bank, an otherwise submarine survey and count to UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve , called " Sule Skerry and Sule Stack is known."
literature
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: Sailing Directions (Enroute), Pub. 141, Scotland
Web links
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