Bruray

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Bruray
Location
Bruray
Bruray shown within Scotland.
OS grid reference:	HU689720
Names
Gaelic name:
Norse name:	Bruray
Area and Summit
Area:	55 ha
Area rank (Scottish islands):	185=
Highest elevation:	53 m
Population
Population (2001):	26
Population rank (inhabited Scottish islands):	61 out of 97
Groupings
Island Group:	Shetland
Local Authority:	Shetland Islands
References:	[1][2][3]

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

It is separated from Housay by North Mouth and South Mouth.

[edit] Infrastructure

The Skerries Bridge was built in 1957 to provide a fixed link from Bruray to the neighbouring and larger island of Housay

Bruray is home to Scotland's smallest school.

The island occasionally suffers from water shortages. There is little peat on the Out Skerries, so the residents have been granted rights to cut in on Whalsay.^[2]

A ferry connects the Out Skerries with Vidlin and Lerwick on the Shetland Mainland, as well as flights from Tingwall by Loganair.

[edit] See also

• Extreme points of the United Kingdom.

[edit] External links

• Undiscovered Scotland on The Out Skerries

1. ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
2. ^ ^{a b} Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-454-3. 
3. ^ Ordnance Survey

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