Bound Skerry Lighthouse
Bound Skerry Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Bound Skerry Lighthouse is situated nearby to the island Bruray.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse on Bound Skerry, Shetland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bound Skerry Lighthouse, Bound Skerry, Out Skerries”, “Out Skerries Lighthouse”, and “Out Skerries, Bound Skerry, Bound Skerry Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Out Skerries and Bound Skerry.
Out Skerries
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Out Skerries are the easternmost of the Shetland Islands. There are three main islands: Housay and Bruray are joined by road, and in 2001 had a population of 30, while Grunay is no longer inhabited.
Bound Skerry
Islet
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Bound Skerry is part of the Out Skerries group in the Shetland Islands. As well as being the most easterly island of that group, it is also the easternmost point of Scotland.
Bruray
Island
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Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and contains Scotland's most easterly settlement. It is separated from Housay by North Mouth and South Mouth.
Bound Skerry Lighthouse
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.42446° or 60° 25′ 28″ northLongitude
-0.72779° or 0° 43′ 40″ westOpen location code
9CGXC7FC+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 95677318OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
“Bound Skerry Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Bound Skerry”
- French: “Phare de Bound Skerry”
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