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Name: | Sumburgh Head |
Hill number: | 12002 |
Height: | 87m / 285ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1533 Ward of Scousburgh |
RHB Section: | 22: Shetland Islands |
County/UA: | Shetland Islands |
Island: | Shetland Mainland |
Watershed: | Shetland |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | HU 40735 07849 |
Summit feature: | ground by wall by foghorn |
Drop: | 49m |
Col: | 38m HU408082 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 4 (1:25k) 466S |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 92 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Didn't have my GPS with me so walked over the high point on both sides of the wall. | clivevilla | 10/06/2023 |
Up from CP | Crib Goch | 21/05/2023 |
Up from car park in the cloud to the wall by lighthouse and foghorn, Surprised to find trig lower down and away from top. | PeterD | 10/05/2023 |
Car park at HU 408083, then walk up road and tracks, via puffin stops. With JAS. | kdbennett | 21/05/2022 |
Up from car park and pit stop in cafe. | N.Morters | 22/04/2022 |
Up road from car, visited museum on top | Coxswain | 17/09/2021 |
Up road from car park. Puffins on ledge just over wall on way up. | KeithByTheC | 19/06/2021 |
from lighthouse car park up road to lighthouse. | JulieB | 18/06/2021 |
From Parking to N. | ger | 09/06/2019 |
Walked up from the car park on a sunny evening - very busy! | Chris Peart | 07/06/2019 |
With Douglas Law on driech and horrible weather. | vegibagger | 02/06/2019 |
Came to revisit the trig with Charles. | Dugswell2 | 02/06/2019 |
Walked up from car park. Puffin just below path on way up. Great views of cliffs and out to sea. With AP&J. 1.4km. | PiranhaFish | 29/04/2019 |
Straight off the red-eye from Aberdeen. Drove to lighthouse. Wandered around, bagging the 4 trigs also. Windy, wet, lovely views. | jonglew | 18/08/2018 |
First bag of the day after catching the red eye from Aberdeen to Sumburgh (yuurk, had to get up at 03.45). Nice views out of my bleary eyes. | Gill | 18/08/2018 |
on tandem tour | TeasyChris | 02/07/2018 |
From the nearby car park. Also found the trig eventually. | NormanW | 28/06/2018 |
Started walking the Shetland Mainland Watershed to day. I have already walked it in bits but am attempting it as a continuous walk now. I have been on this hill and most of he other hills many times before, but will log them for the Watershed walk | Neil Fraser | 26/06/2018 |
Sumburgh head. Wall crosses hp a few metres L of foghorn. Revisit in passing. Good to see trig accessible again post construction. | RHW | 25/06/2016 |
Visited on a quick trip to the southern end of Shetland Mainland, before what must be one of the briefest ever visits to Foula! | David Purchase | 15/06/2016 |
Enjoyed the seabirds and beautiful views. | jenx | 06/06/2016 |
Second visit to the Head w Jenx on an even better day. Great time to visit with all the nesting birds. Puffins slways a delight. Good to see the lighthouse engines and equipment in great nick. A marked contrast to that gear remaining on wee cumbrae. | nordicstar | 06/06/2016 |
At end of our trip to Shetland, walk around Sumburgh Head. A stunning place. | callumorr | 02/06/2016 |
With GM. | bolton | 28/07/2013 |
From HU 408 083 | summitsup | 04/06/2013 |
RHW | 02/06/2013 | |
Windy morning for a walk to the lighthouse and a view of the Puffins with Tricky Speirs. | Dugswell2 | 27/05/2013 |
W Jenx. First hill on Shetland adventure 2013. V windy, construction work at lighthouse and approach road. Lot of dust in air. Nice lighthouse, seabirds amazing views. As well as puffins there were gannets, guillemots, cormorant, many gulls inc fulmar and think couple of kittewake. Bumped into Tricky and Doug as we were going down, tried to keep up with us all fortnight! ;-) | nordicstar | 27/05/2013 |
After Fitful Head and Jarlshof | Thearlaichdubh | 09/05/2013 |
A fascinating day walk with Lesley using buses down and back from Lerwick -hills, cliffs and beaches -so much to see - puffins up close (now on web cams); One of Robert Stephenson's 15 lighthouses-now a 'world class visitor centre' (plus cafe) - there are even occasional soundings of the fog horn! We had a go at a prehistoric marble game down at Jarlshof prehistoric site then after a slightly worrying crossing of the traffic light controlled runway on foot (no lingering) a lovely sandy beach walk around to tackle Fitful Head, with more worry from the air, dodging the skuas. No sign of any remains of The Braer which hit rocks in Cro Geo after engine failure breaking up causing an oil spill of 85,000 tons of light crude. Even the sheep were speckled with oil blown in on the sea spray. http://www.shipwrecklog.com/log/history/mt-braer/ | Chris Pearson | 26/05/2009 |
With Patricia. | arranc | 10/08/2003 |
Date is first visit. | RHW | 03/08/2002 |
don't know the exact date but back in 2000 when on a trip with the st Clair ferry | Pilotralph | 06/06/2000 |
Fabulous place on a mainly birdwatching holiday- many cetaceans and view of Foula from HP and W cliffs | pwheeler | 14/06/1996 |
Can't remember the date, it was a visit when I was in Shetland with work. Amazing place. | hillsman | blank |
GaryJones | 09/10/2023 | |
alda | 16/08/2023 | |
kannegray | 16/08/2023 | |
geoffreycurnock | 26/06/2023 | |
MorecambeMonkey | 19/06/2023 | |
CXB | 26/07/2022 | |
CXB | 24/07/2022 | |
SpudGunn | 30/06/2022 | |
Pete R | 26/04/2022 | |
thelonious | 11/09/2021 | |
iainwalton | 22/07/2021 | |
phil101 | 19/06/2021 | |
Simon Winton | 02/06/2021 | |
nicolajane | 22/07/2019 | |
AndyS | 22/06/2019 |