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Lusaka National Park is located to the south-east of the city of Lusaka in Zambia. It is Zambia's newest national park, established in 2011 and officially opened in 2015. It is also Zambia's smallest national park at 6,715 hectares. The park was established over an area that was previously forest reserve and is entirely fenced. [1] [2]
Lists of places in Scotland (1 C, 40 P) A. ... Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Scotland" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Salen (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Sàilein) [1] is a coastal village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, overlooking Salen Bay which is an inlet of the sea loch, Loch Sunart. Located in the Scottish council area of Highland , it is on the road to Ardnamurchan Point , the most westerly point of mainland Britain .
There are thousands of historic sites and attractions in Scotland.These include Neolithic Standing stones and Stone Circles, Bronze Age settlements, Iron Age Brochs and Crannogs, Pictish stones, Roman forts and camps, Viking settlements, Mediaeval castles, and early Christian settlements.
Together they unearthed over one hundred items. This hoard is the largest Viking treasure trove found so far in Scotland. [1] References
The Hebrides (Outer Hebrides in orange). The flora and fauna of the Outer Hebrides in northwest Scotland comprises a unique and diverse ecosystem.A long archipelago, set on the eastern shores of the Atlantic Ocean, it attracts a wide variety of seabirds, and thanks to the Gulf Stream a climate more mild than might be expected at this latitude.
The United Kingdom tentative list comprises sites which may be nominated for inscription over the next 5–10 years. Including the now-inscribed Antonine Wall, four Scottish sites were on the 2006 list. [16] Several sites were then added in 2010, of which only three were selected for a short list created in 2011. [17]
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.