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	Isle of Skye - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The island has some of the most dramatic and challenging mountain terrain in Scotland, including the Cuillin, as well as a rich heritage of ancient monuments, castles, and memorials.
		Many of the island's roads have been widened in the past 40 years, but there are still substantial sections of single track road.
		Portree is the largest settlement, and main service centre on the island, with a population of 2,491 (2001 census).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Skye (1055 words)

	Aleutian Islands Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All these island arcs are at the edge of the Pacific Plate and experience a lot of seismic activity, but are still habitable; the Aleutians lie between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.
		The great majority of the islands bear evident marks of volcanic origin, and there are numerous volcanic cones on the north side of the chain, some of them active; many of the islands, however, are not wholly volcanic, but contain crystalline or sedimentary rocks, and also amber and beds of lignite.
		The climate of the islands is oceanic, with moderate and fairly uniform temperatures and heavy rainfall.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Aleutian_Islands (0 words)

	List of islands of Scotland
		Many of these islands are swept by strong tides, and the Corryvreckan tide race between Scarba and Jura is one of the largest whirlpools in the world.
		Many previously inhabited islands such as Mingulay, Noss and the St Kilda archipelago have been abandoned during the course of the past century and today only 14 islands are populated by over 1,000 people and 45 by over 100.
		The culture of the islands has been affected by the successive influences of Celtic, Norse and English speaking peoples and this is reflected in names given to the islands.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/List_of_islands_of_Scotland (1439 words)

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		After decades of problems with absentee landlords, the island was bought in 1997 by the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust, a partnership between the residents of Eigg, the Highland Council, and the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
		The centre of the island is a moorland plateau, rising to 393 metres at An Sgurr, a dramatic stump of pitchstone, sheer on three sides.
		A lengthy feud with the MacLeods led to the massacre of the island\'s entire population.
	www.englandiworld.com /wiki-Eigg (768 words)

	WARSAW Slate Islands - GOwarsaw.eu: Warsaw business tourism web site and guide to business services, conferences, ...
		The Slate Islands are an island group in the Inner Hebrides, lying immediately off the west coast of Scotland, north of Jura and southwest of Oban.
		The underlying geology of the islands is Dalradian slate, which was quarried widely until the mid-twentieth century.
		Ascrib Islands Â· Canna Â· Cara Â· Coll Â· Colonsay Â· Crowlin Islands Â· Eigg Â· Gigha Â· Iona Â· Isay Â· Islay Â· Jura Â· Kerrera Â· Lismore Â· Oronsay Â· Muck Â· Mull Â· Raasay Â· Rona Â· RÃ¹m Â· Skye ;Â·
	www.gowarsaw.eu /warsaw-info/index.php?title=Slate_Islands (409 words)

	Hebrides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hebrides are probably the best-known group of Scottish islands, but other groups include the islands of the Firth of Clyde, Islands of the Forth and the Northern Isles.
		The islands are the setting of the poem The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth.
		The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various islands.
	www.search.com /reference/Hebrides (1234 words)

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		The island lies between the islands of North Uist and South Uist, to which it is connected by road causeways.
		It is the main administrative centre for the three islands, and has the council offices and the administrative centre for the artillery deep sea firing range on South Uist, which is managed by QinetiQ.
		In contrast to the cultivated west coast of the island, the eastern half is a mixture of freshwater lochs, moorland, bog and deeply indenting sea lochs.
	www.englandiworld.com /wiki-Benbecula (412 words)

	Ross Shire Scotland through time \| Descriptive Gazetteer entries
		The island portion consists of the whole of the N part of the island of Lewis, and a number of smaller islets on the coast of Lewis, as well as on the coast of the mainland portion of the county.
		From the island part the mainland is separated by the Minch, 24 miles across the narrowest part, and from the W coast of Lewis, ESE to Tarbet Ness, is 125 miles; while from the Butt of Lewis, SSE to the upper end of Glen Shiel, is 106 miles.
		Of this area there are in the islands 437, 221.438 acres, of which 402,166.473 acres are land, 26,862.856 are water, and 14,641 792 are foreshore, while 417, 458 acres, including foreshore and water, are in the part in the Hebrides.
	vision.edina.ac.uk /gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10190678 (8723 words)

	WARSAW Isay - GOwarsaw.eu: Warsaw business tourism web site and guide to business services, conferences, hotels, ...
		Isay is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of the west coast of Scotland.
		However, like many other small islands, the island people were removed during the Highland clearances to make way for sheep.
		Ascrib Islands Â· Canna Â· Cara Â· Coll Â· Colonsay Â· Crowlin Islands Â· Eigg Â· Gigha Â· Iona Â·
	www.gowarsaw.eu /warsaw-info/index.php?title=Isay (423 words)

	Crowlin Islands
		The Crowlin Islands (Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Cròlainneach) a group of uninhabited islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
		In 1937, Nikumaroro was known as Garner Island, and Gillespie believes that Earhart's plane crashed on the island while Earhart was trying to fly around the globe in her Lockheed 10E Electra.
		The new expedition is centered around radio distress calls that are said to have been made by Earhart just before her plane went missing, but many researchers consider the transmissions an elaborate hoax.
	crowlin-islands.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Crowlin_Islands (0 words)

	Eigg
		After decades of problems with absentee landlords, the island was bought in 1997 by the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust, a partnership between the residents of Eigg, the Highland Council, and the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
		The centre of the island is a moorland plateau, rising to 393 metres at An Sgurr, a dramatic stump of pitchstone, sheer on three sides.
		By the nineteenth century, the island had a population of 500, producing potatoes, oats, cattle and kelp.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /wiki/Eigg (1478 words)

	Australian Information from Wikipedia
		The Hebrides (Gaelic: Innse Gall) comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, and in geological terms are composed of the oldest rocks in the British Isles.
		The Hebrides are probably the best-known group of Scottish islands, but other groups include the islands of the Firth of Clyde, Islands of the Forth and the Northern Isles.
		The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various islands.
	www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Hebrides (1285 words)

	Benbecula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island lies between the islands of North Uist and South Uist, to which it is connected by road causeways.
		It is the main administrative centre for the three islands, and has the council offices and the administrative centre for the artillery deep sea firing range on South Uist, which is managed by QinetiQ.
		In contrast to the cultivated west coast of the island, the eastern half is a mixture of freshwater lochs, moorland, bog and deeply indenting sea lochs.
	www.surfonsteroids.com /index.php?q=aHR0cDovL2VuLndpa2lwZWRpYS5vcmcvd2lraS9CZW5iZWN1bGE= (402 words)

	Fleetwoodmac.org
		Lismore Island (Lios Mòr in Gaelic) is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Loch Linnhe, in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland.
		Lismore is the home of the highland Clan MacLea, whose chief, Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil, Baron of the Bachuil is Coarb of St Moluag and, as such, the hereditary keeper of the saints crozier or pastoral Staff (an early church relic known as the Bachull Mòr).
		From this source the impression is often taken that the Bachuil Lands were held from the church on condition that the holder kept and took care of the crozier of St Moluag.
	fleetwoodmac.org /index.php?q=Lismore,_Scotland (867 words)

	Isle of Mull - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Isle of Mull (or simply Mull; Muile in Scottish Gaelic) is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland in the county of Argyll and Bute.
		The island is home to over 250 different bird species including the sea eagle, which was introduced in the nearby Island of Rùm and migrated to Mull.
		The mausoleum of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1809 to 1822 may be found on the island (Macquarie had been born on nearby island of Ulva) and serves as a point of pilgrimage for the few Australians who venture there.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Mull (729 words)

	Coll
		Coll is a small island (about 21 km long and 5 km wide) in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, west of Mull.
		The island has a small village, Arinagour, from which ferries operated by Caledonian MacBrayne sail to Scarinish on Tiree and to Oban on the mainland.
		Coll is also home to Project Trust, a gap year organisation that sends school leavers abroad for a year's voluntary work, they send 17-19 year olds on a whole year abroad, and have extensive selection and training weeks.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /wiki/Coll (1119 words)

	Financial Library - Tiree (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The low-lying island is highly fertile, and crofting, alongside tourism, are the main sources of employment for the islanders.
		In 1770, half of the island was held by fourteen farmers who had drained land for hay and pasture.
		The island is known for its vernacular architecture, including 'flhouses' and 'white houses', many retaining their traditional thatched roofs, as well as its unique 'pudding' or 'spotted houses' where only the mortar is painted white.
	www.financiallibrary.com /tiree.htm (731 words)

	Inner Hebrides, Great Britain: Islands Guide
		The islands have a land area of 2,900 sq km and a population of 25,000 (est).
		The mountains that stretch across the middle of the island rise to over 900 metres and are particularly popular with hill walkers.
		The island is home to a magnificent array of wildlife- it has one of the world’s largest colonies of Manx shearwaters and eagles are frequently seen soaring over the island.
	www.islandsguide.co.uk /innerhebrides.htm (655 words)

	Bermuda Petrel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Commonly known in Bermuda as the cahow, this seabird nests in burrows in the rocky outlying islands that remian free of cats and rats.
		Initially common throughout the islands, introduced species and mass killings of the birds by early colonists decimated numbers.
		Believed to have been driven to extinction, a few were sighted on nonsuch island, and a program has been set up to build concrete burrows for the nesting sites in order to help facilitate breeding.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/be/Bermuda%20Petrel.htm (128 words)

	Rockall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is 301.4 kilometres (187.3 statute miles or 162.7 nautical miles) west of the uninhabited island of Soay, St. Kilda, Scotland and 368.7 kilometres (229.1 statute miles) west of the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh, on the island of North Uist, Scotland.
		The earliest recorded landing on the island was on 8 July 1810 when a Royal Navy officer called Basil Hall led a small landing party from the frigate HMS Endymion to the summit.
		The Faroe Islands are an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark.
	www.photonicsindustry.com /search/Rockall (3312 words)

	insurance Crowlin_Islands - insurance-notes.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Crowlin Islands (Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan CrÃ²lainneach) a group of uninhabited islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
		Although cave excavations on Eilean MÃ³r have shown evidence of human settlement in Mesolithic times 8,000 years ago, the islands have been uninhabited since about 1920.
		By agreement with the evicting landowning family they were allowed to settle on the islands and make what living they could by fishing and farming.
	www.insurance-notes.com /Crowlin_Islands (277 words)

	Inner Hebrides information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.
		The Norse control of the Hebrides was formalized in 1098 when Edgar of Scotland formally signed the islands over to Magnus III of Norway.
		Some were restored for a promise of good behaviour, but MacDonald was unable to control his son who defeated him at the Battle of Bloody Bay (Mull, 1481) and his nephew whose rebellion in 1493 provoked an exasperated James IV to forfeit the lands for the last time in 1493.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Inner_Hebrides (588 words)

	Torridonian - LoveToKnow 1911
		They form the isolated mountain peaks of Canisp, Quinag and Suilven in the neighbourhood of Loch Assynt, of Slioch near Loch Maree and other hills.
		They attain their maximum development in the Applecross, Gairloch and Torridon districts, form the greater part of Scalpay, and occur also in Rum, Raasay, Soay and the Crowlin Islands.
		The Torridonian rocks have been subdivided into three groups: an upper Aultbea group,3000-5000ft.; a middle or Applecross group,6000-8000ft.; and a lower or Diabeg group, Soo ft. in Gairloch but reaching a thickness of 7200 ft. in Skye.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Torridonian (252 words)

	Crowlin Islands in Highland on the British Towns and Villages Network
		Crowlin Islands in Highland on the British Towns and Villages Network
		Population and area summary of the Island of Crowlin Islands
		The Island of Crowlin Islands is located in the County of Highland in Outer Hebrides Region of Scotland, it covers an administrative area of 0Km² and in 2001 was home to a population of 0 persons, that represents 0.00% of that of Scotland and 0.00% of the population of the entire United Kingdom.
	www.british-towns.net /sc/level_3_display.asp?GetL2=519 (262 words)

	Knowledge Base Gazetteer of Scottish Places
		A group of small islands (Eilean Mor, Eilean Meadhonach and Eilean Beag), off the west coast of Scotland, between 1845 and 1975 in the civil parish of Applecross, in the county of Ross & Cromarty.
		Locations of settlements (including burghs) are National Grid References or (for offshore islands) degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude.
		Those prefixed by a question mark are places which have not been traced accurately but in many cases a rough location has been attempted.
	www.scan.org.uk /knowledgebase/search/gazetteer_searchmembers_4.asp?placenameid=319 (163 words)

	Luing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luing (Gaelic: An t-Eilean Luinn) is one of the Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about 16 miles south of Oban.
		A regular ferry service crosses the 200 m wide Cuan Sound which separates Luing from the neighbouring island of Seil, which is in turn connected by bridge to the mainland.
		They are a breed of red beef cattle, produced by the Cadzow family in 1947 from a cross between Beef Shorthorn and Highland cattle.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Luing (342 words)

	Great British Diving - Ullerpool to Kylerhea article by Peter Collings
		Eilean a chaoll, loch toridon rocky pinnacles at the southern end of the island with good marine life including ballan wrasse, conger and ling.
		Although the diving around these islands is very mediocre it is a good location for encounters with seals.
		There are the remains of a fishing trawler in 17 meters off the west of the islands at caolas beag.
	www.sportextreme.com /phdiar179 (1122 words)

	Chalice News from 2006
		A visit to the Shiant Islands in quite a rough sea prevented us from landing, but the sheer cliffs disappearing into the cloud and the volume of sea birds was declared a definite 'moment of the week' by two guests.
		There is no doubt that the islands would look far better without all of this detritus, but it does lend a certain mystery to a place when you begin to consider just how far some of the rubbish has travelled to land on a particular beach.
		The island was a riot of colour and wildlife - the best news being that the puffins (which were absent at this time last year) were busily popping in and out of hundreds of burrows with beaks full of sandeels.
	www.mvchalice.com /News_from_Chalice_2006.htm (6544 words)

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