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Muckle Skerry

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56: 55: 40: 66: 273: 225: 170: 1251: 414: 1308: 400: 667: 660: 340:. It is the westernmost of the skerries. At one kilometre (five furlongs) long and rising to an elevation of 20 metres (65 feet) above sea level, it is sizable enough to be considered an 653: 1393: 1155: 1072: 999: 885: 432: 1349: 1212: 556: 461: 344:. 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 1292: 1373: 1368: 336: 1388: 385: 163: 523: 1342: 39: 1383: 549: 427: 65: 1378: 1285: 332: 104: 31: 111: 1335: 1022: 785: 745: 840: 1047: 542: 680: 377: 1278: 1193: 1188: 1145: 1130: 924: 909: 800: 750: 1178: 1173: 1125: 1027: 989: 944: 735: 705: 381: 159: 1110: 1140: 979: 949: 919: 875: 780: 765: 700: 361: 904: 725: 720: 481: 1095: 1052: 880: 835: 820: 740: 715: 710: 289: 272: 224: 169: 1183: 1062: 994: 357: 1198: 1090: 934: 419: 645: 1067: 974: 825: 617: 602: 308: 85: 1250: 865: 805: 17: 969: 810: 629: 405: 1319: 1307: 1262: 964: 959: 939: 760: 730: 328: 97: 413: 1362: 755: 494: 1135: 850: 845: 830: 1165: 1150: 914: 870: 795: 597: 529: 1315: 984: 855: 815: 676: 577: 395: 1227: 1214: 453: 126: 113: 1120: 1105: 1100: 790: 775: 612: 592: 534: 1082: 1042: 1037: 1032: 1017: 896: 688: 587: 312: 93: 929: 860: 365: 1258: 1009: 954: 582: 566: 345: 341: 89: 1115: 770: 634: 607: 38: 388:(this was the first light that Stevenson officially worked on). 649: 538: 376:
Pentland Skerries Lighthouse was constructed in 1794 by the
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because it supports significant breeding populations of
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Pentland Skerries Lighthouse
Muckle Holm (disambiguation)

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Pentland Skerries
Orkney
Scotland
United Kingdom
Coordinates
58°41′25″N 2°55′29″W / 58.690221°N 2.924735°W / 58.690221; -2.924735
Thomas Smith
Robert Stevenson
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Characteristic
Pentland Skerries
Scotland
Pentland Firth
grid reference
ND464782
island
skerry
Important Bird Area
BirdLife International
seabirds
Commissioners of the Northern Lights
Thomas Smith
Robert Stevenson

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