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[1] There are two sea stacks, vertical pillars of rock, just off Boreray. Stac An Armin, 400 metres (1 ⁄ 4 mile) to the north, is the taller at 196 metres (643 ft) high, while Stac Lee, 600 m (660 yards) to the west, is 172 metres (564 ft) high. Boreray is the smallest of the Scottish islands to have a summit over 1,000 feet (300 metres).
Mousa Broch is the best preserved Iron Age fortification in the British Isles. [15] The 2000-year-old round tower stands above a rocky shoreline, one of a pair of brochs guarding Mousa Sound. They may be part of a chain of brochs in this part of Shetland, visible from each other as beacons.
Some 94 Scottish islands are permanently inhabited, of which 89 are offshore islands. Between 2001 and 2011, Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. [3] The geology and geomorphology of the islands is varied. Some, such as Skye and Mull, are mountainous, while others like Tiree and Sanday are relatively low-lying.
Some 94 Scottish islands are permanently inhabited, of which 89 are offshore islands. Between 2001 and 2011, Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. The geology and geomorphology of the islands is varied. Some, such as Skye and Mull, are mountainous, while others like Tiree and Sanday are relatively low-lying.
Gruinard Island (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ n j ər d / GRIN-yərd; [6] Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles) long by one kilometre (5 ⁄ 8 mi) wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. [7]
Vallay (Scottish Gaelic: Bhàlaigh) is an uninhabited tidal island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. It can be reached from North Uist by a long beach at low tide. Southeast coast of Vallay seen from Solas. The abandoned mansion [5] of Erskine Beveridge in July 2004. Once the island supported a population of nearly sixty people.
The island's population was recorded as 192 at the 2011 census, [2] an increase of over 30% since 2001. [70] During the same period Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. [71] The majority of the resident working population are engaged in farming or fishing, [17] [72] and sheep raised on the island have a reputation for ...
Stronsay (/ ˈ s t r ɒ n z iː /) is an island in Orkney, Scotland.It is known as Orkney's 'Island of Bays', owing to an irregular shape with miles of coastline, with three large bays separated by two isthmuses: St Catherine's Bay to the west, the Bay of Holland to the south and Mill Bay to the east.