Out Stack

Out Stack
Location
Out Stack
Out Stack shown within Scotland
OS grid reference	HP612202
Population
Population	0
Groupings
Island group	Shetland
Local Authority	Shetland Islands
If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census.

Out Stack.

Photo taken by Andy Strangeway on Out Stack in 2009

Out Stack or Ootsta in Shetland, Scotland, is the northernmost of the British Isles, lying immediately to the north of Muckle Flugga and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) north of the island of Unst. It is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands and lies within the Hermaness National Nature Reserve.

Out Stack is little more than a rocky outcrop, and is uninhabited. It has been described as "the full stop at the end of Britain". Travellers do not encounter any further land masses between Out Stack and the North Pole if heading directly north.

Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of ill-fated Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, landed on Out Stack in the 1850s, as it was the closest she could get to her missing husband.

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Coordinates: 60°51′37″N 0°52′27″W / 60.8603°N 0.8741°W / 60.8603; -0.8741