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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sule_Stack > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sule_Stack.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sule_Stack > Source revision: 1333683401 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{About|the small sea stack north of the Scottish mainland|the larger nearby island|Sule Skerry|the island north of the Hebrides|Sula Sgeir}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Scottish island |coordinates = {{coord|59.02|-4.51|display=inline}} |GridReference=HX561179 |celtic name= |norse name= |meaning of name=Gannet Stack, from sùlaire (Scottish Gaelic for northern gannet), and [Stack](/source/Stack_(geology)) (originally Norse) Norse{{sfn|Stewart|1938|p=283}} |area={{cvt|2.9|ha|acre|frac=4}} |area rank= |highest elevation={{cvt|36|m|ft}} |Population=0 |population rank= |main settlement= |island group= [North Atlantic](/source/North_Atlantic) |local authority= [Orkney](/source/Orkney) |references={{sfn|National Records of Scotland|2013}}{{sfn|Haswell-Smith|2004}}{{sfn|Orkney (Mainland)|2014}} |Image=Sule Stack 01.04.2012 14.08.11.jpg}} '''Sule Stack''' or '''Stack Skerry''' is an extremely remote island or [stack](/source/Stack_(geology)) in the [North Atlantic](/source/North_Atlantic) off the north coast of [Scotland](/source/Scotland). It is formed of [Lewisian gneiss](/source/Lewisian_complex).{{sfn|Kirton|Hitchen|1987}} Sule Stack lies {{convert|49|km|nmi|frac=2|abbr=off}} north of the Scottish mainland, and {{cvt|66|km|nmi|frac=2}} west of the [Orkney](/source/Orkney) mainland, at {{gbmapping|HX561179}}. Sule Stack's sole neighbour, [Sule Skerry](/source/Sule_Skerry), lies {{cvt|10|km|nmi|frac=2}} northeast and the remote islands of [Rona](/source/North_Rona) and [Sula Sgeir](/source/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](/source/special_protection_area); the island falls within the administrative region of the [Orkney Islands](/source/Orkney_Islands). The island (along with Sule Skerry) has been designated an [Important Bird Area](/source/Important_Bird_Area) (IBA) by [BirdLife International](/source/BirdLife_International) because it supports breeding populations of several species of [seabird](/source/seabird)s.{{cite web |url= https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/2607 |title=Sule Skerry and Sule Stack|author= |date=2024|website= BirdLife Data Zone|publisher= BirdLife International|access-date= 2024-08-28}} thumb|From the west, Sule Stack appears like a double rock Bird species nesting on the stack include:{{sfn|EEA|n.d.}} *[Razorbill](/source/Razorbill) ''Alca torda'' *[Atlantic puffin](/source/Atlantic_puffin) ''Fratercula arctica'' *[Fulmar](/source/Fulmar) ''Fulmarus glacialis'' *[Great black-backed gull](/source/Great_black-backed_gull) ''Larus marinus'' *[Common shag](/source/Common_shag) '' Phalacrocorax aristotelis'' *[Black-legged kittiwake](/source/Black-legged_kittiwake) ''Rissa tridactyla'' *[Arctic tern](/source/Arctic_tern) ''Sterna paradisaea'' *[Northern gannet](/source/Northern_gannet) ''Morus bassanus'' *[Common guillemot](/source/Common_guillemot) ''Uria aalge'' ==See also== * [List of outlying islands of Scotland](/source/List_of_outlying_islands_of_Scotland) ==References== {{reflist|22em}} ==Sources== {{sfn whitelist|CITEREFNational_Records_of_Scotland2013}} {{refbegin|33em}} *{{Haswell-Smith}} *{{cite book |last1=Kirton |first1=S.R. |last2=Hitchen |first2=K. |editor-last1=Coward |editor-first1=M.P. |editor-last2=Dewey |editor-first2=J.F. |editor-last3=Hancock |editor-first3=P.L. |title=Continental Extensional Tectonics |url=http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/501 |series=Special Publications |volume=28 |date=1987 |publisher=Geological Society |location=London |isbn=978-0-632-01605-1 |pages=501–510 |chapter=Timing and style of crustal extension N of the Scottish mainland }} *{{NRS1C}} *{{cite map |series=Landranger |scale=1:50,000 |issue=6 |title=Orkney (Mainland) |ISBN=9780319228128 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |date=2014 |ref={{harvid|Orkney (Mainland)|2014}} }} *{{citation |journal=[British Birds](/source/British_Birds_(magazine)) |volume=31 |issue=9 |pages=282–294 |title=Notes on the Gannetries of Sule Stack and Sula Sgeir |first=Malcolm |last=Stewart |publisher=Witherby & Co. |date=1 February 1938 |url=https://www.britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/article_files/V31/V31_N09/V31_N09_P282_294_A049.pdf |access-date=1 November 2018 |archive-date=19 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919145822/https://britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/article_files/V31/V31_N09/V31_N09_P282_294_A049.pdf |url-status=dead }} *{{cite web |publisher=European Environment Agency |title=Sule Skerry & Stack Skerry |url=http://eunis.finsiel.ro/eunis/sites-factsheet.jsp?idsite=700100230 |ref={{harvid|EEA|n.d.}} }}{{Dead link|date=January 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} {{refend}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Sule Stack|position=left}} {{coord|59.02382|N|4.50846|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(HX561179)|display=title}} Category:Special Protection Areas in Scotland Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Orkney Category:Important Bird Areas of Orkney Category:Stacks of Scotland Category:Uninhabited islands of Orkney {{Orkney-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sule Stack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sule_Stack) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sule_Stack?action=history)). 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