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	Sula (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An island and the municipality Sula in Norway.
		Sula Sgeir is an uninhabited island group in Scotland
		See also Pula (disambiguation) (sula is generally considered to be the weaker, less aggressive form of the two, somewhat similar to "heck" vs. "hell"; sula also has a primary sense which is a "normal" word in Romanian).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sula (146 words)

	SNH - Display Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Together with the rock Sula Sgeir the island was declared a National Nature Reserve in 1956 - the most remote and least visited NNR in Scotland.
		By far the most difficult of access are Rona and Sula Sgeir, 45 miles to the northwest of the Butt of Lewis.
		Other ornithologists had undertaken a survey of nocturnal petrels, for the nationwide Seabird 2000 project, and last year Sula Sgeir was overflown as part of a ten-year aerial census of gannets.
	www.snh.org.uk /scripts-snh/nw-displ.asp?ID=1284 (842 words)

	North Rona and Sula Sgeir
		The two small and remote islands of North Rona and Sula Sgeir lie in the North Atlantic about 65 km from the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland.
		Sula Sgeir is about 15 km west of the far larger North Rona.
		Sula Sgeir is subject to severe erosive pressure from sea spray and seabirds and has little soil or vegetation.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-22-theme=textonly (429 words)

	Please help stop Scottish fishermens’ cruel Guga hunt
		Each year, around August, approximately 10 fishermen from the Island of Lewis in the Scottish Outer Hebrides sail from the Port of Ness to the Island of Sula Sgeir on a 'guga hunt'.
		Advocates for Animals believes that this mass slaughter has no place in a modern civilised country and that the gannet chicks on Sula Sgeir should be afforded the same legal protection as other gannet chicks in the rest of Scotland.
		Ask the Scottish Executive to afford the gannet chicks on Sula Sgeir the same protection as gannets in the rest of Scotland by removing the special derogation that allows the hunt to continue.
	www.eurocbc.org /stop_killing_of_gannet_young_18aug2003page1202.html (393 words)

	Scottish Screen Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Additional Information: Guga hunters (a guga is a young gannet) being landed on Sula Sgeir for the annual 2-3 week season.
		Sula Sgeir is a precipitous rocky islet, 50 miles North West of Cape Wrath and 10 miles West of North Rona, along with which it forms a nature reserve.
		Shot of temporary stone grave from 1904(?) (3.11) gvs guga [young gannet] in grass and on cliffs of Sula Sgeir (4.53) Boat leaves and men are left ashore to sort the supplies (5.21)
	data.scottishscreen.com /film/detail.php?id=24960001 (219 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Every year the hunters go and stay on a rocky outcrop called Sula Sgeir, 60 miles offshore.
		King Charles II said that the solan goose was one of the things he liked least about Scotland.
		Sula Sgeir is a pretty wild and stormy place with high, rough seas and strong winds, and
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A1143596?s_id=7 (200 words)

	The Green Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ever since ten Hebridean men returned from their two-week expedition earlier this month, there have been whispers that all is not well on Sula Sgeir, 60 miles off the Butt of Lewis, where the chicks are killed with wooden clubs.
		In the 16th century, the dark green flesh of the guga was served at the tables of Scots kings, and today it remains a sought-after delicacy, notwithstanding a covering of stubble and a thick, oily skin.
		The guga hunters are licensed to kill 2,000 chicks of a certain age each year from Sula Sgeirs gannet population of 9,225 birds.
	www.greendirectory.net /news/news.cfm?newsid=1449 (625 words)

	Seabirds find sanctuary on urban edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Another two areas are in the Western Isles: North Rona and Sula Sgeir, 65 km from the north coast of Lewis in the Western Isles, which host dense colonies of gannets, guillemots and kittiwake, razorbills and puffins, as well as an internationally important population of storm and Leach’s petrel.
		The fourth area is the Tiree wetlands and coast in the Inner Hebrides (Sléibhtean Agus Cladach Thiriodh) which are home to a rich assemblage of geese and of wading birds such as dunlin, ringed plover, oystercatcher, lapwing and redshank.
		The SPA classification of North Rona and Sula Sgeir should not affect the traditional sustainable harvesting of a limited number of young gannets by people from the Western Isles.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /pages/news/2001/09/p_SE4023.aspx/Q/Zoom/100 (590 words)

	Round Britain and Ireland Race Nigel Musto comments
		We were 1.37 miles behind him (on the Radar) at Sula Sgeir and he went high on port tack, we stayed low, going for boatspeed.
		We just scraped around Sula Sgeir about a mile and a half to leeward of Victoria Group.
		The breeze freed slightly and we were doing six knots and we began to work up towards Mark and came out half a mile of him when we crossed his line.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/19980519144417ywrnews.html (988 words)

	Wildlife Hebrides - wildlife in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
		Sula Sgeir, a small rocky island off the Butt of Lewis, has for centuries been the home of the famous Guga, the young gannet.
		Every year, a team of men from Ness make the dangerous 38-mile sea journey out to Sula Sgeir to harvest the Guga, salt its meat and store it for local consumption.
		Sula Sgeir is a National Nature Reserve and the Nature Conservatory Council regulates the harvesting, which has no adverse effect on the population of the gannet colony.
	www.wildlifehebrides.com /topten/goose (237 words)

	Innsegall - the Western Isles
		Although small and remote, Rona has a character all of its own and its few visitors find that the experience is more than worth the trip.
		Sula Sgeir (ON Sula sker -Gannet Skerry) is a small narrow rock, about 17km SW of Rona.
		St Ronan’s sister, Brenhilda, is supposed to have stayed here for some time, leaving him on Rona, only to be found dead in a bothy with a shag’s nest in her ribcage.
	www.innsegall.co.uk /guide/outliers/out_rona.htm (612 words)

	Sula Sgeir - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sula Sgeir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sula Sgeir - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sula Sgeir.
		Here you will find more informations about Sula Sgeir.
		The orginal Sula Sgeir article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Sula-Sgeir.html (133 words)

	general ape - weblog
		Some 40 miles north of Lewis lie two remote islands, North Rona and Sula Sgeir.
		Rona is the larger of the two islands but it is the latter, little more than a large sea rock, which has a special place in the heart of Ness folk.
		But tradition dies hard and the Sulasgeir trip still goes on, with a special dispensation for the killing of 2000 birds a year was written into the 1954 Wild Birds Protection Act by a Statutory Order, which allows the Nessmen to continue their taste both for adventure and for the guga.
	generalape.squarespace.com /display/ShowJournal?moduleId=17992&categoryId=9197 (2310 words)

	Innsegall - the Western Isles
		Most of the large colonies of sea birds are however on inaccessible outlying islands, such as St Kilda, the Flannans, the Shiants, Sula Sgeir and Rona.
		Some of the best opportunities for seabird (and cetacean) watching are to be had from the various ferry crossings from the Mainland or between the islands, and the Sounds of Harris and Barra are particularly good places for the binoculars.
		The outliers - the Monach Islands, St Kilda, the Flannans, Sula Sgeir, Rona, the Shiant Islands and the southern Barra Isles are the best places to view breeding seabirds.
	www.innsegall.co.uk /guide/nature/birds.htm (572 words)

	Sula Sgeir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the most remote of British Isles it lies more than forty miles of Lewis and is best known for its of gannets.
		Traditionally people from Port Nis in have travelled to the island to collect birds for food.
		Cape Wrath, Rona and Sula Sgeir (Pathfinder Maps)
	www.freeglossary.com /Sula_Sgeir (136 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Country Diary
		The first two puppies, both "reds" were called Rona and Sula, with the former being after my favourite island, North Rona, and the latter after Sula Sgeir.
		North Rona holds large sea-bird colonies including guillemots, and there is a large grey seal rookery in the autumn.
		Sula Sgeir is a huge stack rising from the sea and in the summer is covered with large numbers of breeding gannets.
	www.guardian.co.uk /country/article/0,2763,969117,00.html (311 words)

	TAC 54: "These are my principles. If you don't like them..." No.2
		The warden will, on current form, object to any climbing/walking-related visits to outlying islands and stacks, while heavily restricting movement on Hirta itself.
		"[Sula Sgeir] is on the green list [National Nature Reserves that will remain as such], but North Areas Board had outstanding concerns about whether the guga hunt on Sula Sgeir (a harvest of 2000 young gannets, licensed by SERAD), was compatible with primacy of nature.
		A paper was presented to the Areas Board showing that gannet numbers on Sula Sgeir had increased despite the harvest." From the September 2000 Review of National Nature Reserves, published on the SNH website - see http://www.snh.org.uk/search-snh/about/docs/item10.doc (See also http://www.reidio.com/fios29.htm for pictures of the 1999 "harvest" of young gannets, or gugas.)
	bubl.ac.uk /org/tacit/tac/tac54/thesear2.htm (554 words)

	Halton Charters (01856) 851532: Details of the Boat
		The summer of 2003 saw me tick off a dive that had been on my wish list for a good while: Sula Sgeir.
		Sula Sgeir is a small rock stack about 90 miles due west of Orkney, accessible only during the best of weather.
		In the summer of 2003, the Halton roamed here and the other Scottish Outliers in a 2 week bird ringing trip (report here) and I managed to sneak a few dives in.
	www.mvhalton.co.uk /text/boatskipper.htm (290 words)

	SNH - Display Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They also had a look at Sula Sgeir - but not landing - on the way home.
		Two hundred of the rare Leach's petrels were caught for ringing.
		SNH's Western Isles staff make brief visits to this NNR whenever they can, but every five years or so undertake a longer trip to count seabirds.
	213.121.208.4 /scripts-snh/nw-displ.asp?ID=1284 (842 words)

	Scottish Islands and Faroes Wildlife and Whale-watching Cruise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		St Kilda, North Rona, Sula Sgeir, the Flannan Isles...
		Leach's Petrels can be heard calling from their nesting burrows in the ruined walls of a small church in the 'village' - this is probably one of the best places in the world to encounter Leach's Petrel at a breeding colony.
		Nearby Sula Sgeir is the last island in Britain on which Gannets are harvested annually.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /tours2005/scottishislands.php (1664 words)

	Scottish Screen Archive
		SULA SGEIR GANNET HUNT, the aka MEN OF NESS
		Additional Information: Gannet hunting on the island of Sula Sgeir (a precipitous rocky islet, 50 miles North West of Cape Wrath and 10 miles West of North Rona, along with which it forms a nature reserve).
		Film-maker was born in 1914 and was a policeman in Glasgow who later became a Detective Inspector.
	data.scottishscreen.com /film/detail.php?id=35900001 (161 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Concern at falling seabird numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the rock Sula Sgeir, North Rona, 45 miles north from the Butt of Lewis and from Cape Wrath, has been a National Nature Reserve since 1956.
		The biggest decline, however, was among shags, with the party able to locate only 21 nests where in previous years 150 or more would have been found.
		Earlier this month, experts on reserves run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and the Scottish Wildlife Trust said that the decline among seabirds had spread to western reserves such as those on Tiree, St Kilda and Canna.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1964752005 (721 words)

	Sula Sgeir
		Sula Sgeir is a large rock about 17km SW of Rona.
		It has a large Gannetry and is also home to many other breeding seabirds.
		The island is split by caves which run right through the rock and which can be traversed by boat..
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /charles-tait/library/westernisles/outliers/sulasgeir (58 words)

	Advocates for Animals - Campaigns - Wild Animals - Gugas
		Each year, around August, approximately 10 men from the island of Lewis in the Scottish Outer Hebrides sail from the Port of Ness to the Island of Sula Sgeir on a 'guga hunt'.
		The 'guga hunt' involves the men plucking about 2,000 baby gannets from the cliff faces using poles of up to 10 feet long with a sprung metal jaw on the end.
		This 'guga hunt' is carried out under licence from the Scottish Executive with advice from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
	www.advocatesforanimals.org.uk /campaigns/wild/gugas/gugas01.html (506 words)

	Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Home > Topics > Publications catalogue > Species > Birds > Birds of particular localities > Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir
		Benn, S., Murray, S. & Tasker, M.L. A species by species guide to the birds of these two Hebridean islands, a discussion of the importance of the surrounding sea, and a brief history of human occupation.
		Please cite as: Benn, S., Murray, S. & Tasker, M.L., (1989), Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir, 47 pages, A4 softback, ISBN 0 86139 477 1
	www.jncc.gov.uk /page-2388 (101 words)

	Sierra Club Outings \| Scottish Isles Odyssey: Cruising the Shetlands and the Outer Hebrides \| 05630A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It will be our home for eight glorious days, as we sail from Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, to Aberdeen, on the east coast.
		On our clockwise odyssey we'll visit the Orkneys, the Shetlands, North Rona and Sula, Mingula, Berneray, and Pabay Islands (as the weather and seas allow, of course).
		Leach's petrels can be heard calling from their nesting burrows in the ruined walls of a small church in the village.
	www.sierraclub.org /outings/national/brochure/05630a.asp (2306 words)

	Keep On Fighting - Protest Against Clubbing and Strangling of Baby Gannets
		The Scottish Executive receives applications to allow the killing and taking of a set number of young gannets on the island of Sula Sgeir for the purpose of human consumption.
		Any licences issued are done so under Section 16 (2)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, which states 'for the purpose of providing food for human consumption in relation to a gannet on the island of Sula Sgeir'.
		These licence have a number of conditions attached including the specified maximum number of gannets which can be taken, and that the method of killing/ taking used is not prohibited by Section 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
	www.keeponfighting.net /article.php?story=20030719000234852 (544 words)

	Halton Charters (01856) 851532: Mary's Journal
		As the sun rose my first sight was of this sheer rocky cliff absolutely covered with nesting gannets.
		This was Sula Sgier - the folk from Lewis come here annually to collect gannets - they find them particularly tasty!
		Angus and Bob have a dive amongst the dive bombing gannets.
	www.haltoncharters.co.uk /Sule03/text/diary.htm (3800 words)

	Untitled Document
		Last year's champions Sula Sgeir return this year with exactly the same team who triumphed in 1998.
		With their solid navigational know-how, ideally the team say they would favour windy conditions with a heavy low mist.
		Whatever the weather though, one would expect Sula Sgeir to finish strongly once again this year.
	www.wichallenge.co.uk /live99/pre_race/teams/mac_teams.html (495 words)

	Scotland: Scottish Islands Cruise - Limosa's 21st Anniversary Trip! Bird Watching Holiday in Britain & Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Out in the Atlantic, far to the north-west of Cape Wrath on the mainland, lie the tiny islands of North Rona and Sula Sgeir.
		This is one of only a handful of places where Leach’s Petrel breed in the UK and, if we are lucky, birds may be heard calling from their nesting burrows in the ruined walls of a small church in the ‘village’.
		Nearby, Sula Sgeir is the last place in Britain where Gannets are harvested annually.
	www.limosaholidays.co.uk /tourDetail.cfm?tourID=303&act=itinerary (1320 words)

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