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	Shiant Isles Archaeological Survey
		The Shiants do however display one of the most extant and dramatic examples of columnar dolerite in the British Isles, which can easily be compared favourably with the splendour of Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa whose columns are dwarfed by those of the northerly cliffs of the Shiants.
		The islands also boast the largest Black Rat population in the British Isle, which to some may not appear to be a worthy attribute yet it is certainly of importance to the naturalist and, perhaps surprisingly, the archaeologist.
		A similar project to investigate the Shiant Islands was conceived when Adam Nicolson, the owner of the islands, was commissioned to write a book describing their ancient and recent social and economic history, natural history and his family's personal involvement with them.
	www.shiantisles.net /archaeology/survey.htm (1541 words)

	Location Explorer -
		The Shiant Isles (Scottish Gaelic : Na h-Eileanan Seunta) are an island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
		The main islands are Eilean Garbh and Eilean an Tighe, which were inhabited until 1901 and are actually joined by a narrow isthmus, and Eilean Mhuire.
		The islands are known for their dolerite columns, similar to those on Staffa, and for their population of seabirds, threatened only by fl rats.
	www.cruise.com /LE5/Default/LocationID_12261/index.html (75 words)

	Outer Hebrides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main islands form an archipelago, which with their smaller surrounding islands are sometimes known poetically as the Long Isle.
		The major islands include:Lewis and Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Barra.
		To the east lie the Shiant Islands, located in the Minch.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/o/ou/outer_hebrides.html (317 words)

	CDNN News :: Scotland - Enhanted Shiant Islands and Ghostly, Menacing Blue Men of the Minch
		SHIANT ISLANDS, Scotland (30 Nov 2004) -- ACCORDING TO LEGEND, the ghostly and menacing Blue Men of the Minch live in the Sound between the Shiant Islands.
		The Shiants are a group of two islands and several islets and outlying rocks.
		Eilean an Tighe, which is the southern part of the group's largest island, is connected with Garbh Eilean, the northern part, by a low narrow neck of polished pebbles.This isthmus covers at spring tides or during storms.
	www.cdnn.info /travel/t041130/t041130.html (494 words)

	Outer Hebrides - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lewis is in the north of the island group and forms part of the county of Ross-shire.
		However other islands are less strict and those south of North Uist are known to be predominantly Roman Catholic.
		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.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Outer_Hebrides (1166 words)

	Lonely-Isles Muck
		A group of islands in the Minch, separated from North Harris in the Outer Hebrides by the Sound of Shiant.
		Garbh Eilean, the northernmost part of the largest island, is connected to Eilean an Tigh in the south by a narrow neck of pebbles.
		To the east is Eilean Mhuire (Mary's Island), an elevated plateau surrounded by steep cliffs.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/t/atra04/lonelyisles/shiants/Home.htm (567 words)

	List of islands of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of the islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain, as well as a table of the largest Scottish islands.
		Rockall is claimed by the United Kingdom as part of Scotland, but its status is disputed.
		Some places in Scotland are called islands or isles, but are not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_Scotland (178 words)

	The Shiant Isles Home Page
		The Shiants are a small group of islands in the Hebrides, in North West Scotland, four miles or so off the coast of Lewis and 12 from the northern tip of Skye, which lies almost due south of them.
		Ann Bowker's photos of a trip to the Shiants in September 2005.
		The islands are one of the great bird stations of the northern hemisphere (and the only place in the British Isles where the Black Plague rat survives in any numbers).
	www.shiantisles.net (300 words)

	Outer Hebrides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name for the UK Parliament constituency covering this area is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, whilst the Scottish Parliament constituency for the area continues to be officially known as Western Isles although it is almost always written as Western Isles (Eilean Siar).
		Between 1890 and 1975 administration was split, by the Lewis-Harris boundary, between the county councils of Ross and Cromarty (which covered Ross-shire and Cromartyshire) and Inverness-shire.
		Other islands are less strict however, especially the predominantly Roman Catholic islands of South Uist, Barra, and Benbecula.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Outer_Hebrides (1136 words)

	Faeroe Islands: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The largest islands are Streymoy, on which the group's capital, TU+00F3rshavn, is situated, and U+00D8sterU+00F8.
		...involvement in the islands fisheries and maritime...Montserrat and the Faeroes -- non-European...on behalf of the Faeroe Islands, arranged for a...Norway and Denmark (Faeroes), June 15, 1979...States and the Cook Islands, June 11, 1980...
		The Faeroe Islands are a collection of 18 islands lying between Scotland and Iceland.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/faeroe_islands.jsp (1692 words)

	Sea Room Book at Shop Ireland
		This comes out in his painstaking reconstruction of the geological formation of the islands, of their ancient bronze and iron age settlements, and of the harsh lives of the families that lived here until large-scale economies destroyed traditional Hebridean life.
		The Shiants are anthropomorphised, becoming a character in their own right, proof that the tiniest place can reflect the passage of time.
		Such is the enthusiasm for the Shiant Isles exhibited by the wife of Adam Nicolson, author of SEA ROOM.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/0006532012/Sea-Room (1294 words)

	Innsegall - the Western Isles
		It seems that the islands were inhabited up until the late 18th century, when changes in land ownership and society made the old way of life no longer viable.
		The Shiants are a major seabird breeding ground due to their location next to good feeding grounds and lack of predators, except for Black Rats.
		The Shiants are one of the marvels of the Hebrides and their owner, Adam Nicolson, has recently published a book about them under the title of Sea Room.
	www.innsegall.co.uk /guide/outliers/out_shiant.htm (670 words)

	Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides
		At various times, the Sussex-based writer recalls, the Shiant islands "have been the most important thing in my life," and he has produced a vivid, meticulously researched paean to his "heartland," examining its geology, its flora and fauna, and its history as he reminisces about his own idylls there.
		The islands, now uninhabited except by the Nicolsons, are outcroppings of grass and rock and stark fl cliffs, surrounded by churning waters that are notoriously difficult to negotiate.
		The grandson of Vita Sackville-West, Nicolson, who was given the islands with their cliffs, sheep, rats, and birds on his 21st birthday by his father, has written Sea Room as a self-proclaimed "love letter" that captures the character of the place.
	www.grainger.de /dbe/sbs/scotref016.html (336 words)

	Scotland from the Roadside - Outer Hebrides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are literally hundreds of islands in this 150 mile-long chain to the west of Scotland.
		The largest of the islands, known as the Long Island (a term also used for the entire chain of islands), is made up of Lewis, to the north, and Harris, to the south, divided by Lochs Seaforth in the east and Resort in the west.
		Off the east coast of Lewis are the Shiant Islands with the Sound of Shiant being the stretch of water between them.
	www.ourscotland.co.uk /outerhebrides.htm (173 words)

	Lighthouses of Scotland's Western Isles
		The islands are accessible by air or by Caledonian MacBrayne ferries from various locations in western Scotland.
		The four light stations reasonably accessible without a boat are all on or close to the Isle of Lewis, which is accessible by ferry from Ullapool in the northern Highlands or from Uig on the Isle of Skye.
		Rona is an uninhabited island roughly 70 km (45 mi) north of the Butt of Lewis; it is often called North Rona to distinguish it from another Rona (which also has a lighthouse) in the Inner Hebrides (see Scotland West Coast page).
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/heb.htm (1297 words)

	Britain Warns Shippers of Marine Environmental High Risk Areas
		Following the grounding and loss of the 50,000 ton, Liberian registered tanker Braer in storm conditions off the Shetland Islands in January 1993, Lord Donaldson of Lymington was appointed to conduct an Inquiry into what further measures could be taken to protect the UK coastline from pollution from merchant shipping.
		The Shiants (pronounced Shants) are a small group of islands in the Hebrides, in northwest Scotland.
		It is necessary to obtain IMO approval of routing measures because the Minches are recognized as straits used for international navigation in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2006/2006-02-13-04.asp (818 words)

	Hebrides.com - Photographs - The Shiants
		The Outer Hebrides, (also known as the Western Isles) is a chain of islands over 150 miles long off the north west coast of Scotland.
		The Shiant islands lie between the mainland of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides.
		For many who travel by ferry to Lewis, the most northern and populated island in the chain, this is their first glimpse of the Hebrides.
	www.hebrides.com /sea/shiants.htm (71 words)

	rats.mtw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shiant islands possess the only confirmed single species colony of ship rat in the United Kingdom (Angus and Hopkins 1996).
		The Shiants, or Enchanted islands (na h-eileanan seunta), are a small group of uninhabited islands lying in the Minch, six kilometres from the east coast of Lewis and twenty kilometres north of Skye (6° 40' E, 57° 53' N).
		Rats were captured during a month stay on the islands by an expedition from the Biological Sciences department.
	obelia.jde.aca.mmu.ac.uk /rd/mtb/rats.htm (395 words)

	Arctic Cruise: Scottish Islands Itinerary & Rates
		We visit Britain’s remotest islands — the lonely outpost of St. Kilda, which boasts huge bird colonies, Fair Isle, with its gannets and Foula, where a handful of people share their island home with thousands of Arctic Skuas, Great Skuas and Arctic Terns, while the surrounding seas are the domain of seals and Sea Otters.
		Island and parish names come straight out of the sagas; “Westray” means west island, “Hoy” is the high island.
		The small islands of Mingulay, Berneray and Pabay, to the south of South Uist, are a nature reserve and teeming with sea birds during the breeding season.
	www.travelvantage.com /arc_cr_scis.html (3173 words)

	Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gaidhlig (Gaelic Media Service) -> Naidheachdan (News)
		Eilean Mhuire, the most fertile of the three principle Shiant Isles, is embellished with the characteristic ripples of rigs or lazybeds; testimony to the industry of earlier times when fertile pockets of agricultural land on the lower slopes were actively tilled and worked.
		The third island, Eilean an Tighe, was the main focus of early habitation and now supports the only building on the Shiants – a picture-postcard cottage used by John Murdo during working stays on the islands.
		Throughout the summer, the island is also utilised by the many visitors to the Shiants, attracted by the unique environment and birdlife of this unspoilt Hebridean jewel.
	www.gms.org.uk /news/05/13.php (820 words)

	The Shiant Isles Puffin Adenture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shiants are a small group of islands in the Hebrides, in North West Scotland, four miles or so off the coast of Lewis This trip is an opportunity to spend time on wild, dramatic, uninhabited islands rich in seabirds (especially puffins) and other wildlife.
		This includes overnight stay at the Guest House on 23rd, the return boat trip to the Shiant Isles from the Isle of Lewis and all food, fuel, supplies etc for the duration of the stay on the islands.
		The Shiants are dangerous on land and sea.
	www.wildeye.co.uk /shiants.html (676 words)

	Amazon.com: Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides: Books: Adam Nicolson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nicolson is the islands' resident historian and scientist, and as he prepares to give the islands to his own son, he can do so knowing that his gift is not merely sentimental but substantive.
		Nicolson's approach to describing the islands for his readers resembles John McPhee's: it's an engaging blend of natural history (how were the islands formed?), human history (who lived here and why?), archaeology, and ecology (how do the animals and plants of the Shiants form a whole world?).
		He writes: "I love the Shiants for all their ragged, harsh and delicate glory and this book is a love letter to them." It is one of the most persuasive love letters ever written.
	www.amazon.com /Sea-Room-Island-Life-Hebrides/dp/0865476675 (2503 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides: Books: Adam Nicolson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This comes out in his painstaking reconstruction of the geological formation of the islands, of their ancient bronze and iron age settlements, and of the harsh lives of the families that lived here until large-scale economies destroyed traditional Hebridean life.
		The precision with which almost every inch of the islands' physical and historical identities are described is, literally, marvellous; Nicolson eschews generalities, and writes with a love of detail that is increasingly rare.
		The Shiants are anthropomorphised, becoming a character in their own right, proof that the tiniest place can reflect the passage of time.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sea-Room-Island-Life-Hebrides/dp/0865476675 (1943 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Sea Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Adam Nicolson inherited the Shiant islands when he was 21 and they became in many ways the core of his life.
		These were the Shiants, three of the loneliest of the British Isles, set in a dangerous sea, with no more than a stone-built, rat-ridden bothy as accommodation, five miles or so off the coast of Lewis.
		Adam Nicolson inherited the islands when he was 21, an astonishing gift, and they became in many ways the core of his life.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/?whatfor=0006532012 (244 words)

	Great British Diving - Isle of Lewis Outer Hebrides article by Peter Collings
		Rugged, remote unique the islands are a three hour ferry ride from the mainland at Ullapool, landing at the main town of Stornaway, and it is here we start our tour.
		On the western side of the island there are several rocky outcrops near Loch Roag, and Gallan Head, interspaced with sandy expances.
		To the south of Lewis are the islands of North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra.
	www.sportextreme.com /phdiar173 (918 words)

	Island Books
		An Island to Oneself: Tom Neale's Tale of Life on a Deserted Island Tom Neale spent almost 20 years living on a deserted South Pacific island.
		Australia's beloved "Beachcomber" takes you on a detailed visit to his tropical island paradise where civilization was scarcely known, and the comings and goings of a wide variety of birds, animals, and sea creatures was much more important than stock options, market share, or technological advances.
		This documentary is based on a royal who bought an island in the Carribean and eventually becomes an outcast for being VERY DIFFICULT to the board members that now run the very profitable island.
	www.privateislandsonline.com /island-books.htm (732 words)

	Hiort - Code of Conduct for Cruise Ships
		There are no landing facilities on any of the islands and the rocks can be very slippy; so passengers should exercise great care when stepping ashore and pay attention to the commands of their boatman.
		Visitors are asked not to wander around the islands alone and unaccompanied, in case of accidents, and not to venture too close to the cliff edge.
		All these islands are famed for the richness and diversity of their wildlife and have therefore attracted a host of national and international designations.
	www.hiort.org.uk /cruise-ships-conduct.htm (1445 words)

	10 Callicvol - Research Centre for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new programme of events and activities for 2004 is now available from The Islands Book Trust, some of them directly involving the facilities here at 10 Callicvol, others being held elsewhere in Lewis and Harris.
		The first event is to be a talk here about the island of Rum (picture), given by John Love, author of the most substantial book on the subject and perhaps best known for his part in achieving the return of the sea eagle to Scotland, an enterprise centred on Rum in the first place.
		Early in July Adam Nicolson, whose family have owned the Shiant islands for many years and who has written about them in his book Sea Room, will give a talk in South Lochs, which will be followed — again weather permitting — with a visit to the islands.
	www.10callicvol.com /centre/callicvol/feb04.asp (582 words)

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