Bound Skerry
Infobox Scottish island |
latitude=60.43
longitude=-0.72
GridReference=HU702719
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Population=0
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island group=Out Skerries Shetland
local authority=Shetland Islands
references=cite book| author=Haswell-Smith, Hamish| date=2004| title=The Scottish Islands| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Canongate| isbn=1-84195-454-3] [ [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey] ]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 the cost of £21,000. Robert Louis Stevenson's family were lighthouse builders, and his signature can be seen in its guestbook.cite book| author=Haswell-Smith, Hamish| date=2004| title=The Scottish Islands| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Canongate| isbn=1-84195-454-3] The keepers lived on nearby Grunay.
The island was bombed twice in WWII by the Germans, who thought it was a munitions factory.cite book| author=Haswell-Smith, Hamish| date=2004| title=The Scottish Islands| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Canongate| isbn=1-84195-454-3]
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