Muckle Skerry
Muckle Skerry is the largest of the Pentland Skerries, a group of uninhabited islets that lie off the north coast of Scotland in the Pentland Firth. It is home to the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse, in the north of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muckle Skerry Lighthouse and Pentland Skerries Low Light.
Pentland Skerries Low Light
Lighthouse
Photo: George Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pentland Skerries Low Light is a lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brough Ness and Duncansby Head.
Brough Ness
Locality
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brough Ness is a locality, which is situated 3 miles northwest of Muckle Skerry.
Duncansby Head
Locality
Photo: Russ McLean, CC BY 3.0.
Duncansby Head is the most northeasterly part of both the Scottish and British mainlands, slightly northeast of John o' Groats. It lies approximately 20 km east-southeast of Dunnet Head, the northernmost point of both the Scottish and British mainlands. Duncansby Head is situated 5 miles southwest of Muckle Skerry.
Muckle Skerry
- Type: Islet
- Description: largest of the Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland, uk
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.68871° or 58° 41′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.92494° or 2° 55′ 30″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9CCVM3QG+F2OpenStreetMap ID
way 47397034OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2642034Wikidata ID
Q2400160
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Uzbek—“Muckle Skerry” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Muckle Skerry”
- Asturian: “Muckle Skerry”
- Catalan: “Muckle Skerry”
- Cebuano: “Muckle Skerry”
- Dutch: “Muckle Skerry”
- French: “Muckle Skerry”
- German: “Muckle Skerry”
- Italian: “Muckle Skerry”
- Japanese: “マックル・スカリー島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Muckle Skerry”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Muckle Skerry”
- Spanish: “Muckle Skerry”
- Swedish: “Muckle Skerry”
- Uzbek: “Muckle Skerry”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Muckle Skerry”. Photo: Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0.