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Small Shetland island
Muckle Flugga (/ˈmʌkəl ˈflʌɡə/) is a small rocky island north of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the most northerly hill in Scotland and
Muckle_Flugga
Lighthouse in the Shetland Islands
Muckle Flugga lighthouse punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga, in Shetland, Scotland. Originally called North Unst Lighthouse, it was renamed in
Muckle_Flugga_Lighthouse
Topics referred to by the same term
Antarctica Muckle Flugga, a small rocky island north of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, punctuates the rocky stack of Muckle Flugga
Muckle
Island in Scotland
Kingdom, and the British Isles. It lies 600 m (2,000 ft) northeast of Muckle Flugga and 1+1⁄2 nautical miles (3 kilometres) north of the island of Unst
Out_Stack
21m high and south of Ship Stack Muckle Flugga comes equipped with a lighthouse but has had "many ascents" Little Flugga reaches 31m No. Vesta Skerry reaches
List of sea stacks in Scotland
List_of_sea_stacks_in_Scotland
Scottish civil engineer
Brebner was appointed resident engineer for the construction of the Muckle Flugga lighthouse in the northern Shetlands. The project was initiated at the
Alan_Brebner
Scottish poet and author
at The University of Edinburgh. Pedersen released his debut novel, Muckle Flugga, in 2025 to critical acclaim[citation needed]. He has written three
Michael_Pedersen_(writer)
Headland on Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland
hectares, including the whole of the Hermaness peninsula and the outlying Muckle Flugga and Out Stack. The reserve has a path and boardwalk that extends out
Hermaness
Northernmost Shetland Island, Scotland
Gutcher Muness Castle Saxa Vord Hill Spaceport launch pads Haroldswick Muckle Flugga Hermaness NNR Baltasound Belmont UYEA BALTA YELL UNST The remains
Unst
Inner Flaess, Lang Holm, Leegal Skerry, Little Flugga, Littlewick Stack, Longa Stacks, Muckle Flugga, Neapna Stack, North Croga Skerry, North Holms,
List_of_Shetland_islands
European windstorm in 1992
failed at reporting values higher than they were programmed to, such as Muckle Flugga. This station was incapable of reporting a value above 150 kn (170 mph;
1992_New_Year's_Day_Storm
British television documentary series
Precious Isles" 12 March 2023 (2023-03-12) 7.61 In the waters around Muckle Flugga in the Shetland islands, a group of orca named the "27 pod" by researchers
Wild_Isles
New Zealand actress (1924–2010)
series creator Julian Dickon. In her 1998 autobiography Happy Days in Muckle Flugga, Evison stated that the role as Mrs Telford changed her life, and she
Pat_Evison
Scotland Muckle Green Holm The North Isles, Orkney Islands Scotland Muckle Flugga Shetland Islands Scotland Muckle Ossa Shetland Islands Scotland Muckle Roe
List_of_islands_by_name_(M)
Pair of archipelagos near Scotland
Holm. "Muckle" meaning large or big is one of few Scots words in the island names of the Nordreyar and appears in Muckle Roe and Muckle Flugga in Shetland
Northern_Isles
Marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean
to Herma Ness (60°51'N), on to the SW point of the Rumblings and to Muckle Flugga (60°51′N 0°53′W / 60.850°N 0.883°W / 60.850; -0.883) all these being
North_Sea
Environment Scotland. https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Muckle-Flugga/ http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB13578 "Listed
List of lighthouses in Scotland
List_of_lighthouses_in_Scotland
General lighthouse authority for Scotland and the Isle of Man
masterpieces of their time, notably those at Bell Rock, Skerryvore, and Muckle Flugga. Between 1876 and 2005 the Northern Lighthouse Board also maintained
Northern_Lighthouse_Board
and sunk in the North Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) east by south of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by a Heinkel He 111 aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 26
List of shipwrecks in April 1940
List_of_shipwrecks_in_April_1940
2009 British TV series or programme
Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel Islands. Visited Muckle Flugga, Forewick Holm, and Unst in the Shetland Islands then Lewis and Harris
Islands of Britain (TV series)
Islands_of_Britain_(TV_series)
Swedish actor
ont om Q? (for children) 1975: Ägget är löst 1976: Bästa vägen till Muckle Flugga (with Kim Meurling) 1976: Svea Hunds limerickar 1979: Den befjädrade
Hans_Alfredson
Scottish literary awards
Idle Grounds Krystelle Bamford Shortlist This Bright Life Karen Campbell Phantom Limb Chris Kohler Hermit Chris McQueer Muckle Flugga Michael Pedersen
Scotland's National Book Awards
Scotland's_National_Book_Awards
Northern islands of the Shetland Islands, Scotland
northerly land of the United Kingdom and Shetland at Out Stack near Muckle Flugga, and its most northerly settlement Skaw on Unst. These also happen to
North_Isles
Mucking Essex 51°30′N 0°25′E / 51.50°N 00.41°E / 51.50; 00.41 TQ6881 Muckle Flugga Shetland Islands 60°51′N 0°53′W / 60.85°N 00.88°W / 60.85; -00.88
List of United Kingdom locations: Mos-Mz
List_of_United_Kingdom_locations:_Mos-Mz
German U-Boat, known for sinking RMS Carpathia
Harwich." Note: S.S. = Steam Ship; S.V. = Sailing Vessel; northabout, Muckle Flugga, Fair I. = around Scotland; Sound, Belts, Kattegat = via North of Denmark
SM_U-55
Scottish civil engineer, lighthouse designer and meteorologist (1818–1887)
Colonial Marine Engineer. Whalsay Skerries (1854) Out Skerries (1854) Muckle Flugga (1854) Davaar (1854) Ushenish (1857) South Rona (1857) Kyleakin (1857)
Thomas_Stevenson
Circles of latitude
61.000; -0.683 (Atlantic Ocean) United Kingdom Passing just north of Out Stack, Muckle Flugga and Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
Circles of latitude between the 60th parallel north and the 65th parallel north
Circles_of_latitude_between_the_60th_parallel_north_and_the_65th_parallel_north
joined to the Shetland Mainland: West Burra and East Burra (via Trondra) Muckle Roe Trondra Broch of Clickimin is a freshwater islet joined to the mainland
List_of_islands_of_Scotland
Island in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
ISBN 9780520256491. The islands range from 60°51' N in the north (Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands) to 49°51' N (Pednathise Head, Isles of Scilly) in
Pednathise_Head
Scottish regional history
58 50 50 Mainland 13,282 12,944 17,722 17,562 17,550 18,765 Muckle Flugga 3 3 0 0 0 0 Muckle Roe 103 94 99 115 104 130 Isle of Noss 0 3 0 0 0 0 Papa Stour
History_of_Shetland
ignored (help) Cowie, Ian (7 August 2006). "Time for muddle before Muckle Flugga". "Sailing Results". Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved
Marcelle_von_Wendland
82607 (Baltasound, Hagdale Horse-Mill) B 45287 Upload Photo Burrafirth, Muckle Flugga Lighthouse Shore Station, Including Former Accommodation Block, Cottage
List of listed buildings in Unst
List_of_listed_buildings_in_Unst
to Herma Ness (60°51'N), on to the SW point of the Rumblings and to Muckle Flugga (60°51′N 0°53′W / 60.850°N 0.883°W / 60.850; -0.883) all these being
Geography_of_the_North_Sea
Works: Julian Anderson – Thebans Wind Band or Brass Band: Rory Boyle – Muckle Flugga Tom Service, "La Philharmonie de Paris: is this a new musical and social
2015_in_classical_music
Remote reef off the coast of Scotland
although in 1846 he was the foreman for the construction of a new light at Muckle Flugga. Munro (1979) p. 133. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Argyll
Skerryvore
1916 class of German coastal submarines
October 1916 25 October 1916 Torpedoed and sunk by HMS G13 north of Muckle Flugga on 10 March 1917. UC-44 10 October 1916 4 November 1916 Sunk by its
Type_UC_II_submarine
British sailor and activist (born c. 1943)
at Baltasound in Unst to get supplies. He was next spotted rounding Muckle Flugga lighthouse heading out into the Atlantic. Soon after, his vessel capsized
Stuart "Captain Calamity" Hill
Stuart_"Captain_Calamity"_Hill
1915 German Type UC II minelaying U-boat
or by mines laid. UC-43 was torpedoed and sunk by HMS G13 north of Muckle Flugga on 10 March 1917. A Type UC II submarine, UC-43 had a displacement of
SM_UC-43
Type U 93 submarine
Harwich." Note: S.S. = Steam Ship; S.V. = Sailing Vessel; northabout, Muckle Flugga, Fair I. = around Scotland; Sound, Belts, Kattegat = via North of Denmark
SM_U-96
Human settlement in Scotland
Hagdale Muness Castle Saxa Vord Hill Spaceport launch pads Haroldswick Muckle Flugga Hermaness NNR Baltasound Belmont UYEA BALTA YELL UNST Many of Baltasound's
Baltasound
sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74 km) north by east of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-60 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of
List of shipwrecks in June 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_June_1917
Works: Julian Anderson – Thebans Wind Band or Brass Band: Rory Boyle – Muckle Flugga On 10 July 2015, the chart week changed from Sunday–Saturday to Friday–Thursday
2015_in_British_music
Swona Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Bagi Stack Balta Sound
List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses
List_of_Northern_Lighthouse_Board_lighthouses
King of Dublin and the Isles
"generous man", whilst "Þursasker" may refer to rocks off Shetland—perhaps Muckle Flugga or the Outer Skerries—or rocks off Thurso Bay. Close connections between
Echmarcach_mac_Ragnaill
Gunboat of the Royal Navy
on the way from Scapa Flow to carry out an anti-submarine patrol off Muckle Flugga when Speedwell spotted the German submarine U-41 250 yards (230 m) off
HMS_Gossamer_(1890)
Submarine of the United States
company with the former French Navy minesweeper HMS La Capricieuse to Muckle Flugga in the Shetland Islands. On 7 April 1943 she parted company with La
USS_Blackfish
German Type U 31 U-boat
cruise." Note: S.S. = Steam Ship; S.V. = Sailing Vessel; northabout, Muckle Flugga, Fair I. = around Scotland; Sound, Belts, Kattegat = via North of Denmark
SM_U-32_(Germany)
Scottish lighthouse designer (1815–1886)
Head Turnberry Holy Island Whalsay Skerries (1854) Out Skerries (1854) Muckle Flugga (1854) Davaar (1854) Ushenish (1857) South Rona (1857) Kyleakin (1857)
David_Stevenson_(engineer)
Scottish composer
(2012) clarinet & piano Di Tre Re e io (2015) clarinet, viola & piano Muckle Flugga (2013) Augustine (1975) children’s opera The Ghost of Hamish Prong (2000)
Rory_Boyle
Enid Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged off Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom by U-25 ( Kriegsmarine). Her sixteen
List of shipwrecks in January 1940
List_of_shipwrecks_in_January_1940
in the Atlantic Ocean 30 nautical miles (56 km) west north west of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-60 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of
List of shipwrecks in April 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_April_1917
Type UC II submarine was sunk by torpedo in the North Sea north of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom (60°57′N 1°11′W / 60.950°N 1.183°W
List of shipwrecks in March 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_March_1917
sunk in the North Sea 80 nautical miles (150 km) east north east of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-48 ( Imperial German Navy). Her crew survived
List of shipwrecks in September 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_September_1917
in the Atlantic Ocean 17 nautical miles (31 km) north north west of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom by SM UC-33 ( Imperial German Navy)
List of shipwrecks in May 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_May_1917
Lighthouse in South Ayrshire, Scotland
Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Turnberry_Lighthouse
also noted for its humour. A collection of his writing, The Road to Muckle Flugga, was published in 2004. In his foreword, Jeremy Clarkson, the journalist
Philip_Llewellin
camp. "Muckle", meaning large or big, is one of few Scots words in the island names of the Nordreyar and appears in Muckle Roe and Muckle Flugga in Shetland
Scottish_island_names
Kingdom The 209-ton trawler, a sold off naval trawler, was wrecked at Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands. Later refloated, towed to Aberdeen and scrapped.
List_of_shipwrecks_in_1953
was scuttled in the North Sea 25 nautical miles (46 km) north west of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-38 ( Imperial German Navy). Her crew survived
List of shipwrecks in August 1915
List_of_shipwrecks_in_August_1915
in the Atlantic Ocean 35 nautical miles (65 km) north north east of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom by SM U-20 ( Imperial German Navy)
List of shipwrecks in July 1915
List_of_shipwrecks_in_July_1915
5.133" Note: S.S. = Steam Ship; S.V. = Sailing Vessel; northabout, Muckle Flugga, Fair I. = around Scotland; Sound, Belts, Kattegat = via North of Denmark
SM_U-78
Gunboat of the Royal Navy
on the way from Scapa Flow to carry out an anti-submarine patrol off Muckle Flugga when Speedwell spotted the German submarine U-41 250 yards (230 m) off
HMS_Circe_(1892)
British naval ship
on the way from Scapa Flow to carry out an anti-submarine patrol off Muckle Flugga when Speedwell spotted the German submarine U-41 250 yards (230 m) off
HMS_Speedwell_(1889)
British Royal Navy operations in First and Second World Wars
Fleet Second World War: Home Fleet Garrison/HQ Scapa Flow Nickname The Muckle Flugga Hussars Engagements Battle of the Atlantic 1914–1918 Battle of the Atlantic
Northern_Patrol
finest surviving pieces of early 19th century architecture"; while the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse is Britain's most northerly building. Other functional buildings
List of Category A listed buildings in Shetland
List_of_Category_A_listed_buildings_in_Shetland
1917, U-60 sank Clan Alpine by torpedo, 40 nautical miles (74 km) off Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands on a passage from Tyne to Archangel, killing eight
SS_Clan_Alpine_(1899)
British royal recognitions
Bishops Castle, Shropshire. James Lawrence Edwardson, Attending Boatman, Muckle Flugga Lighthouse. Eileen Eldred, Foster Mother, Down County Welfare Department
1971_New_Year_Honours
between Scotland and Iceland, King Orry and Donegal were to patrol near Muckle Flugga. No signs of the German ships were found by any of the patrols. After
SS_King_Orry_(1913)
German submarine
Her second patrol began 27 May, sailing from Heligoland Bight via Muckle Flugga to the western English Channel. She sank at least one confirmed steamer
SM_U-111
British writer and editor
• The Elgar Way (1990) Giggleswick: Castleberg. • Its a Long Way to Muckle Flugga (1990) Souvenir Press Ltd • Ghosts of the Settle-Carlisle Railway (1990)
W._R._Mitchell
and sunk in the North Sea 85 nautical miles (157 km) north east of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-94 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss of
List of shipwrecks in July 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_July_1917
1915 class of British submarines
March 1916. Sold 1920. G13 - Launched 18 July 1916. Sank UC-43 off Muckle Flugga, 10 March 1917. Sold 1923. G14 - Launched 17 May 1917. Sold 1923. G15
British_G-class_submarine
always been from Barra to Lerwick, via St Kilda, remote Sula Sgeir, and Muckle Flugga–often referred to as the Cape Horn of the north. The leg finishes in
Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race
Round_Britain_and_Ireland_Yacht_Race
main line to Keith. 11 October – temporary North Unst Lighthouse on Muckle Flugga (Shetland), designed by brothers Thomas and David Stevenson, first illuminated
1854_in_Scotland
Lord Glenalmond 1 January – the permanent North Unst Lighthouse on Muckle Flugga (Shetland), designed by brothers Thomas and David Stevenson, is first
1858_in_Scotland
sunk in the North Sea 45 nautical miles (83 km) north east by north of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands by SM U-101 ( Imperial German Navy) with the loss
List of shipwrecks in August 1917
List_of_shipwrecks_in_August_1917
torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 35 nautical miles (65 km) north of Muckle Flugga, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom by U-37 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss
List of shipwrecks in October 1939
List_of_shipwrecks_in_October_1939
British TV series (1969–1971)
6 June 1989, 17 August 1990, 28 November 1992) From Bishop Rock to Muckle Flugga by William Carrocher (25 December 1970; repeated 5 September 1972, 20
Bird's_Eye_View_(TV_series)
Allied military operation during WW2 to secure the coal mines on Spitsbergen in 1942
Lieutenant G. G. Potier flew the sortie. The route of the Catalina was from Muckle Flugga in the Shetland Islands, to Jan Mayen to check the ice edge in the Greenland
Operation_Fritham
Submarine of the Royal Navy
submarine UC-43 off the Shetland Islands, about 9 miles (14 km) NW of Muckle Flugga Lighthouse. Lieutenant Commander George Fagan Bradshaw was awarded the
HMS_G13
food and only the rainwater they could collect to drink, they sighted Muckle Flugga. Soon after they were picked up by a ship and told about the four men
Shetland_bus_boats
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English : occupational name for a maker of buckles, Middle English bokeler, Old French bouclier (see Buckle).Americanized spelling of German Büchler (see Buechler).
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English (Cheshire)
English (Cheshire) : from Middle English hekel ‘heckle’, an implement for combing or scutching flax or hemp for spinning, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used heckles.French (Alsace; Hecklé) : from a diminutive of German Heck 2.
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English : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Huck.German (North : Huckel; South: Huckle): topographic name from a dialect term Huckel, Hückel ‘small hill’.
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English (Lancashire) : habitational name from Tickhill in South Yorkshire, so named from the Old English personal name or byname Tica (of uncertain origin) or ticce(n) ‘kid’ + hyll ‘hill’.Probably an altered spelling of German Tickel, from a pet form of Dick, from a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German diot ‘people’ (see for example Dietrich).
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English
English : habitational name from Mucklows Hill in Worcestershire or Muckley Corner, near Lichfield, Staffordshire. Both are named with Old English micel ‘large’ + hlÄw ‘hill’.
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English
English : habitational name from Mackley in Derbyshire, which may have been named in Old English as ‘Macca’s forest’, from an unattested personal name + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, ‘glade’.Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Donnshleibhe ‘son of Donnshleibhe’, a personal name literally meaning ‘brown hill’.Probably also an Americanized form of German Mä(g)gli (see Magley).
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Tickle
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English Greek
Male deer.
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Luckly
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English variant spelling of French Lucille, LUCILE means "little light."
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English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of buckles, from Middle English bokel ‘buckle’.Americanized spelling of German Buckel.
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English : variant of Nichol.Variant of German Nickel.
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German : from a pet form of the personal name Burkhart.German : descriptive nickname for a person with a hunchback.Possibly a German metonymic occupational name for a metalworker, from Middle High German buckel ‘(embossed) buckle on a shield’.English : variant spelling of Buckle.
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English : topographic name from Middle English pigh(t)el ‘small field’, ‘paddock’ of obscure origin.Altered spelling of German Pickel.
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English : variant of Buckle.
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English and Irish (of Norman origin)
English and Irish (of Norman origin) : nickname from Old French mau ‘bad’ + clerc ‘cleric’.
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English (Northumberland)
English (Northumberland) : nickname for a big man, from Middle English muchel ‘big’ (Old English mycel). Compare Mickle.German (Mückle; South German Muckle) : from a diminutive of Muck ‘gnat’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the many places so named, most of which are from Old English bucc ‘buck’, ‘male deer’ or bucca ‘he-goat’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Places called Buckley and Buckleigh, in Devon, are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + clif ‘cliff’.English : possibly a variant of Bulkley, from the local pronunciation.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buachalla ‘descendant of Buachaill’, a byname meaning ‘cowherd’, ‘servant’, ‘boy’.Altered spelling of German Büchler (see Buechler), or of Büchle, a variant of Buechel.
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