Rokol

Hrid Rokol na severu Atlantskog okeana

Rokol je malo stenovito ostrvo, hrid u Atlantskom okeanu.

Stena je deo ugašenog vulkana i njene koordinate su 57°35'48" N, 13°41'19" W. Nalazi se 301,4 kilometra severozapadno od nenaseljenog škotskog ostrva Sent Kilda i na 368,7 kilometara od malog sela Hoga Džired (Hogha Gearaidh) na ostrvu Severni Uist. Severoistočno od njega je irski gradić Donegal. Prečnik ostrva Rokol je 25 metara i dostiže nadmorsku visinu od 22 metra. Jedini stalni stanovnici ovog ostrva jesu školjke i drugi mekušci. Stenu leti koriste morske ptice poput galebova, bluna i njorki kao mesto za predah/odmorište. Na Rokolu je nemoguće živeti. Na ostrvu nema prirodnog izvora vode.

Literatura

• Coates, Richard. The place-names of St Kilda. Lewiston, etc.: Edwin Mellen Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-88946-077-5.
• Harvie-Brown, J. A. & Buckley, T. E. (1889) A Vertebrate Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh. David Douglas.
• Haswell-Smith, Hamish. The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate. 2004. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
• Keay, J., and Keay, J.. Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London. HarperCollins. 1994. ISBN 978-0-00-255082-6.
• Maclean, Charles. Island on the Edge of the World: the Story of St. Kilda, Edinburgh, Canongate. 1977. ISBN 978-0-903937-41-2.
• Martin, Martin (1703) "A Voyage to St. Kilda" in A Description of The Western Islands of Scotland. Appin Regiment/Appin Historical Society. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
• Symmons, Clive Ralph (1993). Ireland and the law of the sea. Blackrock: Round Hall Press. ISBN 978-1-85800-022-0. 
• Symmons, Clive Ralph (1978). The maritime zones of islands in international law. The Hague ; Boston: M. Nijhoff. ISBN 978-90-247-2171-9 9789024721719. 
• British Birds, birds breeding on Rockall. 86: 16–17, 320–321 (1993).
• Houses of the Oireachtas, Parliament of Ireland – Tithe an Oireachtais Архивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (22. август 2006) debate with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Dáil Éireann, 1 November 1973.
• Martin Martin A Description of the Western isles of Scotland (1716).

Spoljašnje veze

• Rockall.name - a complex website about the islet available in both English and Czech
• RockallIsland.co.uk - a website detailing the MSØIRC/p amateur radio expedition of 16 June 2005