Drongs

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The Drongs are a series of thin, rocky pinnacles that resemble a fleet of sailing ships in the distance. This well known and spectacular set of granite stacks, including a 30m high rock pillar known as Slender Drong, the 60m high Main Drong and two smaller stacks, Slim Drong and Stumpy Drong, both 15m high, are located a mile out to sea off the western side of the Ness of Hillswick. David Henry Parry (1793-1826) drew the images for Samuel Hibbert's "Description of the Shetland Islands" published 1822. Engraved by C Thomson of Edinburgh.
Photo and text from Shetland Museum and Archives.

The Drongs (Da Drongs) are the outermost and most spectacular of a series of stacks rising from the sea in St Magnus Bay, about 1 mile west of the Ness of Hillswick. They vary in height from 15m to 60m and at one time would have been part of the cliff itself, but over millennia the softer rock has eroded under the constant attack from the sea, leaving these four magnificent granite pillars.
Their appearance varies with the light and on a misty night they have been compared to a ship under full sail. They are seen to best advantage from Braewick, Eshaness.
A team of four climbers scaled all four stacks in 1992.

The Drongs, seen from Braewick.