Bruray

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Bruray is one of the three Out Skerries islands of Shetland, and contains Scotland's most easterly settlement. ()

Alternative names: Area: 135.91 acres (0.2124 mi²)Coordinates: 60°25'35"N, 0°44'55"W

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Bruray – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Grunay, Nista, Bound Skerry, Out Skerries.

0.7 miS
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Grunay
17 min walk • Grunay is an uninhabited island in the Out Skerries group, the most easterly part of Shetland, Scotland. Its area is 55.58 acres, or 22.49 hectares. The island is the site of the lighthouse keeper's house for the lighthouse on the nearby Bound Skerry. This house was abandoned following the automation of the light in 1972.
6.4 miSW
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Nista
165 min walk • Nista is a small islet of the Shetland Islands of Scotland, situated roughly 2 kilometres east off the coast of Whalsay. It lies to the north of Mooa. The Trota Stack lies just off the north side of the islet. The highest point of the islet is 63 feet.
0.8 miE
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Bound Skerry
21 min walk • Bound Skerry is part of the Out Skerries group in the Shetland Islands. As well as being the most easterly island of that group, it is also the easternmost point of Scotland. It has a lighthouse on it, which was built in 1857 at a cost of £21,000.
0.9 miSW
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Out Skerries
24 min walk • The Out Skerries are an archipelago of islets, some inhabited, in Shetland, Scotland, and are the easternmost part of Shetland. Locally, they are usually called Da Skerries or just Skerries.
6.7 miSW
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Mooa
171 min walk • Mooa is a small islet of the Shetland Islands of Scotland, situated roughly 2 kilometres east off the coast of Whalsay. It lies to the north of Isbister Holm and south of Nista. The highest point of the islet is 63 feet.
5.9 miSW
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Outer Holm of Skaw
152 min walk • The Outer Holm of Skaw is a small, uninhabited islet, a rock outlier off the northeast coast of the island of Whalsay, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.

Bruray

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Bruray – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Grunay

Nista

Bound Skerry

Out Skerries

Mooa

Outer Holm of Skaw