page_title: Sula Sgeir
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Sula Sgeir / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: Sula Sgeir
context_page_description: Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic, 18 kilometres west of Rona. One of the most remote islands of the British Isles, it lies more than forty miles north of Lewis and is best known for its population of gannets.
  A ruined stone bothy called Taigh Beannaichte can be found on the east headland Sgeir an Teampaill. A small automated lighthouse on the south end at Sròn na Lice is regularly damaged by the huge waves which break over the island during rough North Atlantic storms. Despite this, the island has diverse flora.
context_section_description: The modern name is from the Old Norse súla, "gannet" and sker, "skerry". In the 16th century Dean Munro referred to the island as "Suilskeray". Macculloch's 1819 Description refers to "Sulisker", an Anglicised spelling that is still occasionally used. There is Suleskjer, a skerry in Utsira, Norway which has a name with a similar origin; there is also a Sule Skerry in Orkney.
caption: Aerial view of Sula Sgeir
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