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Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Samuel Lewis - 1851

MAIDEN-SKERRY, an isle, in the parish of Northmavine, county of Shetland. It consists of a high rock, the upper part of which has never been trodden by man. In the summer season it is occupied by the largest kind of gulls, called the black-backed, which nestle upon it in vast numbers, undisturbed.