2018
HU3062 : One of the Murbie Stacks
taken 7 years ago, near to Little-Ayre, Muckle Roe, Shetland Islands, Scotland
One of the Murbie Stacks
The Murbie Stacks are not what most of us would think of as stacks - tall, narrow and entirely rocky. However, they don't qualify as islands either - the lush green of the grass on top, compared with that at the photographer's feet, shows that they are not grazed, and anything big enough to graze a sheep qualifies as an island. This seems to leave them within a rather broad definition of skerries.
Whatever you want to call them, they are certainly exposed to the wild weather coming in from the Atlantic - the cliffs on the horizon on the left of the photo are Papa Stour, and apart from Ve Skerries (tiny, 20 km away and below the horizon) nothings else stands between here and North America.
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