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Alladale Wilderness Reserve is a 23,000-acre (93 km 2) highland estate in the Caledonian Forest in Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands.The estate was purchased in 2003 by conservationist and philanthropist Paul Lister, who hopes to recreate a wooded landscape and reintroduce native animals including predators such as the Scottish wildcat and the wolf.
Lairg (Scottish Gaelic: An Luirg, meaning "the shank/shin") [1] is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. [2] It has a population of 891 [3] and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin. Lairg is unusual in the northern Highlands in being a large settlement that is not on the coast. One of the reasons that Lairg is slightly bigger than ...
Sutherland (Scottish Gaelic: Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. The name dates from the Viking era when the area was ruled by the Jarl of Orkney; although Sutherland includes some of the northernmost land on the island of Great Britain, it was called Suðrland ("southern land") from the standpoint of Orkney and Caithness.
The Flow Country (Scottish Gaelic: Dùthaich nam Boglaichean) [1] is a vast area of bog peatland in Caithness and Sutherland, northern Scotland.It is the largest blanket bog in Europe, and covers about 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi).
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Loch nan Clàr (west of Kinbrace, Sutherland) (contiguous with Loch Badanloch) Loch of the Clans (Nairn) Clàr Loch Cnoc Thormaid (east of Scourie, Sutherland) Clàr Loch Mór (east of Scourie, Sutherland) Clar Lochan (Rhidorroch Forest, Ross-shire/Sutherland) Clatteringshaws Loch (Galloway) (reservoir) Clearburn Loch (Scottish Borders)
Getty Images (3) Donald Sutherland spent nearly 60 years in the acting business, passing his passion down to his kids and granddaughter. Sutherland died on Thursday, June 20 at 88, leaving behind ...
Ross eventually became a fully-fledged shire in 1661, after a couple of earlier abortive attempts. It was briefly a shire between 1504 and 1509, formed from part of Inverness-shire by an act of parliament during the reign of James IV, the sheriff to sit at Tain or Dingwall. [18] [19] Ross was restored to Inverness-shire in 1509. [20]