Stac Lee
Stac Lee is a sea stack in the St Kilda group off the west coast of Scotland. An island Marilyn, it is home to part of the world's largest colony of northern gannet. Martin Martin called the island "Stac-Ly" in 1698. Other sources call it "Stac Lii."…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Stack Lii”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boreray and Stac an Armin.
Boreray
Island
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Boreray is an uninhabited island in the St Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic.
Stac an Armin
Islet
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Stac an Armin, based on the proper Scottish Gaelic spelling, is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago. It is 196 metres tall, qualifying it as a Marilyn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Kilda and Glen Mor.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Glen Mor
Locality
Photo: Ian Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glen Mor is a locality, which is situated 4½ miles southwest of Stac Lee.
Stac Lee
- Categories: island, stack, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.86628° or 57° 51′ 59″ northLongitude
-8.5103° or 8° 30′ 37″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C9HVF8Q+GVOpenStreetMap ID
way 28206121OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2644695Wikidata ID
Q738530
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