Out Stack
Island in Scotland
Out Stack (Scots: Ootsta) is an island in Shetland, and the northernmost point of Scotland, the United Kingdom, and the British Isles.
It lies 600 m (2,000 ft) northeast of Muckle Flugga and 1+1⁄2 nautical miles (3 kilometres) north of the island of Unst.
It is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands and lies within the Hermaness National Nature Reserve.
It is uninhabited and there is no landfall directly to the north.
01Description
Out Stack is little more than a rocky outcrop, and is uninhabited. It has been described as "the full stop at the end of Britain". Travellers would not encounter any further land masses between Out Stack and the North Pole if heading directly north.
02Jane Franklin
Jane Franklin, the wife of the Arctic explorer John Franklin, landed on Out Stack after John Rae's reports of the fate of the Franklin expedition had reached Stromness, Orkney, where she lived, in 1853/54.
03Hermaness National Nature Reserve
The Hermaness National Nature Reserve covers the Muckle Flugga rocks and Out Stack, as well as the seabird cliffs and moorland of Hermaness.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Out Stack from the sea - geograph.org.uk - 5522166.jpg by Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Haroldswick, view towards Muckle Flugga and Out Stack from Saxa Vord - geograph.org.uk - 2632639.jpg by Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Out Stack - Scotland's most northerly point and the full stop of the U.K. - geograph.org.uk - 1462941.jpg by Andy Strangeway, CC BY-SA 2.0
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