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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>Out Stack is little more than a rocky <a href="/facts/Outcrop/3MC1NG4y">outcrop</a>, and is uninhabited. It has been described as "the <a href="/facts/Full_stop/w0Ylafwn">full stop</a> at the end of <a href="/facts/Great_Britain/TNgGQRPj">Britain</a>".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Travellers would not encounter any further land masses between Out Stack and the <a href="/facts/North_Pole/gjfItQJH">North Pole</a> if heading directly north. </p> <h2 id="jane-franklin">Jane Franklin</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Jane_Franklin/U8p6lSKg">Jane Franklin</a>, the wife of the <a href="/facts/Arctic/bxbuUz7Q">Arctic</a> explorer <a href="/facts/John_Franklin/KJ3DWVB7">John Franklin</a>, landed on Out Stack after <a href="/facts/John_Rae_(explorer)/CG4AXnQ5">John Rae</a>'s reports of the fate of the Franklin expedition had reached <a href="/facts/Stromness/44AYA45h">Stromness</a>, <a href="/facts/Orkney/CDuLIPfu">Orkney</a>, where she lived, in 1853/54.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="hermaness-national-nature-reserve">Hermaness National Nature Reserve</h2> <p>The Hermaness National Nature Reserve covers the Muckle Flugga rocks and Out Stack, as well as the seabird cliffs and moorland of <a href="/facts/Hermaness/tIWrgfzr">Hermaness</a>. </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Out Stack. <p><a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Out_Stack¶ms=60.8603_N_0.8741_W_">60°51′37″N 0°52′27″W / 60.8603°N 0.8741°W / 60.8603; -0.8741</a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"BBC Scotland - Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands, Series 3, Northern Exposure: The North Isles and Out Stack, the former home of Britain's most northerly lighthouse keepers". <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034ntk8" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034ntk8</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Lady Jane Franklin, the Woman Who Fueled 19th-Century Polar Exploration". Atlas Obscura. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2018. <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cool-lady-jane-franklin-polar-exploration" target="_blank">https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cool-lady-jane-franklin-polar-exploration</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>