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Sule Stack
(Stack Skerry)
Sule Stack appears as a double rock from the west
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 Coordinates: 59 ° 1 ′ 20 "  N , 4 ° 30 ′ 1"  W
Sule Stack (Orkney)
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length 300 m
width 150 m
surface 2.9 ha
Highest elevation 36  m
Residents uninhabited
Landing Site (1967)
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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