Grif Skerry is an islet to the east of Whalsay in the

Shetland Islands Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...

. Its name comes from the Norse or Norn for "deep sea skerry".Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate. Page 455. The island is uninhabited, although there are some buildings on it. These are mostly fishermen's huts, and the remains of a haaf fishing station, so that fishermen could shelter from bad weather.

Geography and geology

There are some caves on the island. The Swarta (meaning "black") and Longa Skerries are offshore. The nearest island is

East Linga East Linga is one of the Shetland Islands. It lies between Whalsay (to the west), and Grif Skerry to the east. Geography and geology The bed rock is gneiss with granite veins. There are many skerries and rocks in the channel south of Whalsay a ...

, and Whalsay is the nearest large island.

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Uninhabited islands of Shetland {{Shetland-geo-stub