Rockall (, ) is an extremely small, uninhabited, remote rocky islet in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Rockall has also been a point of interest for adventurers and amateur radio operators who variously in the past have landed on or occupied the islet for up to several months, although fewer than 20 individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall.

The islet of Rockall makes up the eroded core of an extinct volcano ( a volcanic plug ), and is one of the few pinnacles of the surrounding Helen's Reef.

* Rockall, a islet in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the United Kingdom

( Loftus later changed his name by deed poll to " Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus " as part of a campaign to press the Irish Government to make a territorial claim to the Rockall islet off the coast of County Donegal ).

Some of these patrols ranged as far out as the distant islet of Rockall.

It is the westernmost point of land in Scotland, excluding the disputed Rockall islet.

In the following years Loftus changed his name by deed poll several times more, to " Seán Dublin Bay Loftus ", " Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus " ( as part of a campaign to press the Irish Government to make a territorial claim to the Rockall islet 424 kilometres off the coast of County Donegal ) and " Seán Alderman Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus ", among others.

* Eastern-most point – Kayangel islet, Kayangel state

The rocky islet of Jiddah formerly housed the state prison but has now been converted to a holiday resort.

Some accounts state that the Aztec islet was chosen because its location was strategic, allowing for rapid communication by boat to communities on the shorelines.

They leased the islet from the state of New York, greened its surface, and unofficially renamed it after former United Nations Secretary General U Thant, a friend of Chinmoy.

The Milton Loch interpretation is of a small islet surrounded or defined at its edges by timber piles and a gangway, topped by a typical Iron Age roundhouse.

This islet was a volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs which made it inaccessible to humans, but in 1830 the islet submerged after a volcanic eruption, and the birds moved to the nearby island of Eldey, which was accessible from a single side.

It contains the northernmost point of land, the islet of Y ' Ami in the Batanes Islands, separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel ( c. 50 mi / 80 km wide ).

The islet is claimed by Denmark ( for the Faroe Islands ), Iceland, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The neighbouring Hasselwood Rock is visible by ocean surface wave | breakers directly to the right of the islet.

The protracted period of war between the Lithuanians and the Teutonic Knights was ended on 12 October 1398 by the Treaty of Salynas, named after the islet in the Neman River where it was signed.

In 1798, during the French occupation, the islet was occupied by the Russo-Turkish fleet, who ran it as a military hospital.

On one voyage across the Aegean Sea in 75 BC, Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa.

Snorri Sturluson claims in Olaf Tryggvson's saga that Olaf was born on an islet in Fjærlandsvatnet, where his mother Astrid daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle, was hiding from her husband's killers, led by Harald Greyhide, the son of Eirik Bloodaxe.

An unnamed islet off the north-eastern coast has been classified by BirdLife International as an important bird area because of its global importance as a Roseate Tern breeding site.

The islet on which it stood is now connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of land.

The European rock is usually identified with an islet, about 20m wide and 200m long, which stands about 100m off the shore of a village called Rumeli Feneri (' Lighthouse of Rumeli ), and is connected to it by a modern concrete jetty.

The green islet centre left is Vulcanello, which is connected to Vulcano by an isthmus.

The bay is sheltered from the open sea by a long, narrow islet ( Sphacteria ).

North Uist has many prehistoric structures, including the Barpa Langass chambered cairn, the Pobull Fhinn stone circle, the Fir Bhreige standing stones, the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill ( which may be the earliest crannog site in Scotland ), and the Baile Sear roundhouses, which were exposed by storms in January, 2005.

The islet, which sits within the rough crescent formed by the main island, is 6 square kilometres ( 1, 500 acres ) and extremely flat, rising no more than two meters above the sea.

Because the beta cells in the islets of Langerhans are selectively destroyed by an autoimmune process in type 1 diabetes, clinicians and researchers are actively pursuing islet transplantation as a means of restoring physiological beta cell function in patients with type 1 diabetes.

By the 1950s, the Marshallese population coming to work at the base at Kwajalein had grown, and the conditions in the makeshift labor camp on Kwajalein islet were such that the U. S. Navy administering the atoll at the time decided to relocate these Islanders to nearby Ebeye, an islet only three islands to the north of Kwajalein and accessible by a short boat ride or walk over the reef at low tide.

Zadar was a Liburnian settlement, laid out in the 9th century BC, built on a small stone islet and embankments where the old city stands and tied to the mainland by the overflown narrow isthmus, which created a natural port in its northern strait.

The name Drottningholm ( literally meaning " Queen's islet ") came from the original renaissance building designed by Willem Boy, a stone palace built by John III of Sweden in 1580 for his queen, Catherine Jagellon.

It is separated from the Western Isles by the Rockall Trough, itself located within the Rockall Basin.

The exact position of Rockall and the size and shape of the Rockall Bank was first charted in 1831 by Captain A. T. E.

The first scientific expedition to Rockall was led by Miller Christie in 1896 when the Royal Irish Academy sponsored a study of the flora and fauna.

The ILV Granuaile was chartered by the Geological Survey of Ireland ( GSI ), on behalf of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources ( DCMNR ), to conduct a seismic survey at the Rockall and Hatton Banks in July 2004.

Rockall forms part of the deeply eroded Rockall Igneous Centre that was formed as part of the North Atlantic Igneous Province, approximately 55 million years ago, when the ancient continent of Laurasia was split apart by plate tectonics.

* Legends of Fionn mac Cumhaill also known by many other names including Finn MacCool, have it that he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet ; and that he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the Irish Sea — the clump became the Isle of Man and the pebble became Rockall, the void became Lough Neagh.

In fact, Rockall is mapped by the Ordnance Survey, but is usually shown as an inset without gridlines on a mainland sheet.

In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough west of Scotland encountered the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean, with a SWH of and individual waves up to.

A post-war converted Lancaster, now operating in a maritime reconnaissance role by 120 Squadron, had taken off from RAF Kinloss just after 18. 00 hours on the evening of 13 March 1951 for a NAVEX in the vicinity of Rockall and the Faroe Isles.

The United Kingdom's claim to Rockall is not recognised by any international authority and other countries also claim it.

Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus ( 1 November 1927 – 10 July 2010 ) was an Irish environmentalist, barrister and politician who drew attention to his campaign issues by changing his name.