It Is one of the most desolate and disputed pinnacles of rock in the world. Lashed by huge waves, besieged by seabirds and dirty white with guano, Rockall pokes its tiny head above the Atlantic, 228 ...

It was the day, the moment Nick Hancock had spent more than two years planning for and the tension was clear from his set face and rigid shoulders. He watched as his home-made survival pod, a modified ...

Rockall, in the North Atlantic, is a small islet of large significance. James Gentles, Gentles Ltd./Getty Images This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in ...

A row over who owns the isolated outcrop of Rockall has persisted for decades. The volcanic rock lies around 230 nautical miles north west of Donegal and 240 miles west of Scotland in the North ...

Nick Hancock proving Rockall is where it was thought to be Data gathered during a record-breaking occupation of the remote islet of Rockall has shown it is lower than previously recorded. The rock was ...

Sir, – The Irish claim to Rockall rests on the fact that at 240 sea miles it is 12 miles closer to the Irish mainland (at Erris Head) than to the Scottish mainland (at Ardnamurchan Point) ("Who owns ...

Scotland has "reaffirmed" its ownership of a small disputed rocky outcrop in the Atlantic sea with a detailed map of its surrounding waters. The 19 metre high islet of Rockall, 187 miles west of St ...

Celtic cousins come to blows over the uninhabitable island as lucrative fishing grounds and possible oil and gas deposits spark threats of legal action Rockall, a tiny disputed island in the North ...

Rockall? Wasn't there something about a recent air-sea rescue there a few days ago? It's an odd place. A tiny cone of granite, like a haycock bent over by the wind, only 70 feet in height and once ...

Data gathered during a record-breaking occupation of the remote islet of Rockall has shown it is lower than previously recorded. The rock was found to have a mean height above sea level of 17.15m - ...