Out Skerries
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago in Shetland, Scotland
- Also known as: “Da Skerries” and “Skerries”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bruray and Bound Skerry.
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
Islet
Photo: joost, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Out Skerries
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Out Skerries” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Աուտ Սկերիս”
- Basque: “Out Skerries”
- Cebuano: “Out Skerries”
- Chinese: “外斯凯里斯群岛”
- Chinese: “外斯凱里斯群島”
- Danish: “Out Skerries”
- Dutch: “Out Skerries”
- French: “Out Skerries”
- French: “Skerries exterieures”
- French: “Skerries extérieures”
- German: “Out Skerries”
- Hebrew: “אאוט סקריז”
- Hebrew: “אאוטר סקריז”
- Hebrew: “סקריז החיצוניים”
- Icelandic: “Útsker”
- Italian: “Outer Skerries”
- Japanese: “アウト・スカリーズ島”
- Lithuanian: “Aut Skerisas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Out Skerries”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Outer Skerries”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Out Skerries”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Outer Skerries”
- Norwegian: “Out Skerries”
- Russian: “Аут-Скеррис”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Out Skerries”
- Spanish: “Bruray”
- Spanish: “Grunay”
- Spanish: “Housay”
- Spanish: “Skerries Exteriores”
- Swedish: “Out Skerries”
- Welsh: “Out Skerries”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Out Skerries”. Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.