Muckle Skerry

Pentland Skerries High Light
	Pentland Skerries High and Low Lighthouses
	Wikimedia \| © OpenStreetMap
Location	Muckle Skerry; Pentland Skerries; Orkney; Scotland; United Kingdom
Coordinates	58°41′25″N 2°55′29″W / 58.690221°N 2.924735°W
Constructed	1794
Built by	Thomas Smith, Robert Stevenson
Construction	stone tower
Tower height	36 metres (118 ft)
Tower shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Power source	solar power
Operator	Northern Lighthouse Board
First lit	1820s rebuilt
Automated	1994
Focal height	52 metres (171 ft)
Intensity	710,000 candela
Range	23 nautical miles (43 km; 26 mi)
Characteristic	Fl (3) W 30s.
Admiralty no.	A3562
NGA no.	3020
ARLHS no.	SCO-169
	[edit on Wikidata]

Aerial photograph of Muckle Skerry

Muckle Skerry is the largest of the Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland. It is home to the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse.

Muckle Skerry lies in the Pentland Firth at grid reference

ND464782. It is the westernmost of the skerries. At one kilometre (0.62 miles) long and rising to an elevation of 20 metres (65 feet) above sea level, it is sizable enough to be considered an island. However the notoriously bad weather of the firth has historically rendered Muckle Skerry uninhabitable and as such it is more often thought of as a skerry.

Pentland Skerries Lighthouse[]

Pentland Skerries Lighthouse was constructed in 1794 by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights. The engineers were Thomas Smith and his stepson Robert Stevenson (this was the first light that Stevenson officially worked on).

References[]

^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Orkney". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
^ Pentland Skerries Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 26 May 2016

External links[]

Pentland Skerries Northern Lighthouse Board
Northern Lighthouse Board

Coordinates: 58°41′18″N 2°55′35″W / 58.68824°N 2.92631°W / 58.68824; -2.92631

This Orkney location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

This British lighthouse-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

[1] Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Orkney". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 26 May 2016.

[2] Pentland Skerries Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 26 May 2016

[1]

[2]

show v t Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Ruvaal Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre

Muckle Skerry

Contents

Pentland Skerries Lighthouse[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]