Sule Stack

2.9 ha (7+1⁄4 acres)Highest elevation36 m (118 ft)AdministrationSovereign stateUnited KingdomCountryScotlandCouncil areaOrkneyDemographicsPopulation0

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Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote island or stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. It is formed of Lewisian gneiss.^[5]

Sule Stack lies 49 kilometres (26+1⁄2 nautical miles) north of the Scottish mainland, and 66 km (35+1⁄2 nmi) west of the Orkney mainland, at grid reference HX561179. Sule Stack's sole neighbour, Sule Skerry, lies 10 km (5+1⁄2 nmi) northeast and the remote islands of Rona and Sula Sgeir lie further to the west. Sule Stack and Sule Skerry are home to thousands of gannets and as a result are listed as a special protection area; the island falls within the administrative region of the Orkney Islands.

Bird species nesting on the stack include:^[6]

Razorbill Alca torda
Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica
Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis
Great black-backed gull Larus marinus
Common shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea
Northern gannet Morus bassanus
Common guillemot Uria aalge

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Orkney (Mainland) (Map). 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319228128.
Stewart, Malcolm (1 February 1938), "Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir" (PDF), British Birds, 31 (9), Witherby & Co.: 282–294
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