Rockall
Uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic Ocean
Summary
Rockall is a 17.15-metre-high, uninhabitable granite islet in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is 301 kilometres west of Soay, St Kilda, Scotland; 423 kilometres north-west of Tory Island, Ireland; and 700 kilometres south of Iceland. The nearest permanently inhabited place is in North Uist, 367 kilometres east in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.
Originally created by Andre Engels
5/28/2001, 1:37:40 PM
Modified
6/6/2026, 5:14:25 AM
Recent revisions
/* HMS Endymion – Rockall's first landing */
/* In popular culture */ added wikilink, list chronologised
described the Nick Hancock who occupied the island in 2014 (NOT the comedian)
/* Circumnavigations */ Corrected American spelling to 'organisers'.
/* Radio hams */ Corrected American spelling to 'travelled'.
/* Deploying an all-round light beacon */ Ref for Foster etc.
/* Deploying an all-round light beacon */ tag (also hyper-detailed)
/* Shipping disasters */ harmonized italics
/* Ecology */ Fix ref details (but not sure how reliable it is)
Add Hakai/Smithsonian source corroborating historical gannet and guillemot presence at Rockall
Additional grammar fix
minor grammar fix
/* HMS Endymion – Rockall's first landing */ corrected internal link
Rv removal of links and increasing size of image
/* Discovery of new species */Removed links
/* Geology */Removed link
/* Location */ Clarify that the unidentified code is a grid reference
Added two citations where citations were requested
/* Radio hams */ numbers per [[MOS:NUMERAL]]
[[Wikipedia:OABOT|Open access bot]]: doi updated in citation with #oabot.
