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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.
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)
Sutherland Shire is a local government area (LGA) in the southern region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.Sutherland Shire is located approximately 26 kilometres south-southwest of the Sydney central business district, and comprises an area of 370 square kilometres (140 sq mi).
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).
Tongue (Scottish Gaelic: Tunga from Old Norse: Tunga) is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, [2] in the western part of the former county of Sutherland.It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal on the A836.
Caithness and Sutherland have one of the world's largest and most intact areas of blanket bog, which supports a distinctive wildlife community. [16] [17] Seventy-five per cent of Scotland's land is classed as agricultural (including some moorland) while urban areas account for around 3%. The coastline is 11,803 kilometres (7,334 mi) long, and ...