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{{Short description|Island in Scotland}}
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'''Out Stack''' ({{langx|sco|Ootsta}}) is an island in [[Shetland]], and the [[Extreme points of the United Kingdom|northernmost]] point of [[Scotland]], the [[United Kingdom]], and the [[British Isles]].

It lies {{convert|600|m|ft|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Muckle Flugga]] and {{convert|1+1/2|nmi|km|0|abbr=off}} 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]].

It is uninhabited and there is no landfall directly to the north.

==Description==
Out Stack is little more than a rocky [[outcrop]], and is uninhabited. It has been described as "the [[full stop]] at the end of [[Great Britain|Britain]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034ntk8|title=BBC Scotland - Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands, Series 3, Northern Exposure: The North Isles and Out Stack, the former home of Britain's most northerly lighthouse keepers}}</ref> Travellers would not encounter any further land masses between Out Stack and the [[North Pole]] if heading directly north.

==Jane Franklin==
[[Jane Franklin]], the wife of the [[Arctic]] explorer [[John Franklin]], landed on Out Stack after [[John Rae (explorer)|John Rae]]'s reports of the fate of the Franklin expedition had reached [[Stromness]], [[Orkney]], where she lived, in 1853/54.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cool-lady-jane-franklin-polar-exploration|title=Lady Jane Franklin, the Woman Who Fueled 19th-Century Polar Exploration|date=23 February 2017|work=Atlas Obscura|access-date=17 September 2018|language=en}}</ref>

==Hermaness National Nature Reserve==
The Hermaness National Nature Reserve covers the Muckle Flugga rocks and Out Stack, as well as the seabird cliffs and moorland of [[Hermaness]].

==References==
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==External links==
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[[File:Haroldswick, view towards Muckle Flugga and Out Stack from Saxa Vord - geograph.org.uk - 2632639.jpg|alt=View towards Muckle Flugga and Out Stack from Saxa Vord. Out Stack is the one in the centre (the white shape on right is a ship).|thumb|View towards Muckle Flugga and Out Stack from Saxa Vord. Out Stack is the one in the centre (the white shape on right is a ship).]]
[[File:Out Stack - Scotland's most northerly point and the full stop of the U.K. - geograph.org.uk - 1462941.jpg|alt=View from Out Stack towards Muckle Flugga.|thumb|View from Out Stack towards Muckle Flugga.]]
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[[Category:Stacks of Scotland]]
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of Shetland]]
[[Category:Unst]]
[[Category:Extreme points of the United Kingdom]]


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