The Pentland Skerries (Old Norse: Pettlandssker) are a group of four uninhabited islands lying in the Pentland Firth, northeast of Duncansby Head and south...
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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...
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Nevi Skerry, Outer Holm, Oyster Skerries, Puldrite Skerry, Quanterness Skerry, Scare Gun, Seal Skerry, Skaill Skerries, Skerries of Clestrain, Skerries of...
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Minina Skerries The area surrounding Taymyr Island Sumsky Skerries Sule Skerry Skerryvore A number of locations in the Orkney Islands Auskerry Pentland Skerries...
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Pentland may refer to: Pentland Firth, a strait between Orkney and Caithness in the far north Pentland Skerries, a group of islands lying in the Pentland...
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the Firth are two significant islands, Stroma and Swona. The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east. The islands of Hoy and South Ronaldsay border...
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largest whirlpools in the world. Other strong tides are to be found in the Pentland Firth between mainland Scotland and Orkney, and another example is the...
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Brims Ness, Brough Ness, Duncansby Head, Dunnet Head Islands: Hoy, Pentland Skerries, Swona, South Ronaldsay, South Walls (all generally considered to...
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Kinnaird Head Mull of Kintyre North Ronaldsay Eilean Glas Pladda Pentland Skerries Cloch Point Inchkeith Start Point, Sanday Little Cumbrae Thomas Smith...
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Glimps Holm, Hunda, Lamb Holm, Rysa Little, Switha and Swona. The Pentland Skerries lie further south, closer to the Scottish mainland. Orkney is represented...
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Islay, Orsay, Inner Hebrides (1825) Buchan Ness (1827) Pentland Skerries Lighthouse, Pentland Firth (Rebuild, 1827) Cape Wrath (1828) Tarbat Ness (1830)...
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Wikidata Q80678896. https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Pentland-Skerries/ https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Pladda/ "Listed...
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Albany – sunk by SM UB-27 on 26 August 1916 20 miles east of the Pentland Skerries. HMS Duke of Clarence HMS Duke of Cornwall HMS Dundee – took part...
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ship San Carlo. Norwegian cargo ship Dovrefjell runs aground on the Pentland Skerries, Orkney Islands, Scotland. All 41 crew members are rescued by Royal...
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17 July – Barque Vicksburg of Leith goes aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Skerries with the loss of nine lives; twelve are saved by the island's...
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Magnus Bay, to the west of Mainland, Shetland Muckle Skerry, the largest of the Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland Muckle Ward...
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August 1965. col G, p. 8. "Kathe Niederkirchner: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth". Site Number ND47NE 8038. Historic Environment Scotland...
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2015 in the Pentland Firth. At 14:30 on 3 January, her upturned hull was sighted eleven nautical miles (20 km) east of the Pentland Skerries by the NorthLink...
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Culzean Castle, Ayrshire (approximate date). Original Pentland Skerries lighthouse on Muckle Skerry built, engineered by Thomas Smith with the work superintendend...
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destroyers were on night patrol in the Pentland Firth in a snow storm when they ran aground on the Pentland Skerries and were wrecked. A total of 188 from...
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Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Barrel of Butter Calf of Eday Cava Helliar Holm Hoxa Head Lother Rock Papa Stronsay Roseness Ruff Reef Skerry of...
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cliff with views of the Island of Stroma, the double-lighthouse of Pentland Skerries, and the Orkney Islands. The building was greatly modernised in 1879...
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Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights Shetland Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle...
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SM UB-27 in the North Sea approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of the Pentland Skerries at approximately 58°42′N 2°23′W / 58.700°N 2.383°W / 58.700; -2...
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the Pentland Skerries and sank with the loss of all 92 crew. HMS Opal Royal Navy The Admiralty M-class destroyer ran aground on the Pentland Skerries and...
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Pentland Skerries Lighthouses Muckle Skerry 8/12/1971 ND4649678415 58°41′25″N 2°55′29″W / 58.690186°N 2.924709°W / 58.690186; -2.924709 (Pentland...
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Upload Photo Pentland Skerries Lighthouses 58°41′25″N 2°55′29″W / 58.690186°N 2.924709°W / 58.690186; -2.924709 (Pentland Skerries Lighthouses) Category A...
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Constant. Now called Pettlandssker and used for sight seeing to the Pentland Skerries, Scotland The Shoreham lifeboat Hermione Lady Colwyn which served...
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investigation of the grounding of the general cargo vessel Priscilla on Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth, Scotland on 18 July 2018" (PDF). Marine Accidents Investigation...
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Metropolitan Police. David Marwick Leslie, Principal Lightkeeper, Pentland Skerries, Northern Lighthouse Board. Kenneth Francis Lewis, Shift Chargehand...
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