Eilean Dubh Mòr

Eilean Dubh Mòr est une île du Royaume-Uni située en Écosse.

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Eilean Dubh Mòr

Eilean Dubh Mòr (Scottish Gaelic: big black island) is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It lies at the mouth of the Firth of Lorn, between the islands of Lunga and Garbh Eileach. The area of the island has been measured variously—at 50 hectares (120 acres) by Livingstone and 65 hectares (160 acres) by Haswell-Smith, the latter including the nearby islet of Eilean Dubh Beag (Scottish Gaelic: small black island), which is joined to Eilean Dubh Mòr at low tide.

Scarba, Lunga and the Garvellachs National Scenic Area

Scarba, Lunga and the Garvellachs is the name of one of the 40 national scenic areas of Scotland. The designated area covers the islands of Scarba, Lunga, and the Garvellachs, all of which lie in the Firth of Lorn, along with much of the surrounding seascape. The national scenic areas are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms of development, and are considered to represent the type of scenic beauty "popularly associated with Scotland and for which it is renowned". The Scarba, Lunga and the Garvellachs NSA covers 6,542 ha in total, consisting of 2,139 ha of land with a further 4,402 ha being marine (i.e. below low tide). National scenic areas are primarily designated due to the scenic qualities of an area, however NSAs may well have other special qualities, for example related to culture, history, archaeology, geology or wildlife. Areas with such qualities may be protected via other national and international designations that overlap with the NSA designation. There are several protected areas within or overlapping with the NSA.

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Lunga, Firth of Lorn

Lunga is one of the Slate Islands in the Firth of Lorn in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The "Grey Dog" tidal race, which runs in the sea channel to the south, reaches 8 knots (15 km/h) in full flood. The name "Lunga" is derived from the Old Norse for "isle of the longships', but almost all other place names are Gaelic in origin. The population was never substantial and today the main activity is an adventure centre on the northern headland of Rubha Fiola. The surrounding seas are fished for prawns and scallops and there is a salmon farm off the south eastern shores. The Special Area of Conservation of which the island is part hosts a growing number of outdoor leisure pursuits. Lunga is a complex island made of several separate parts that are connected at low tides but which "disintegrate" at higher states of the tidal cycle. The largest of these outliers are Fiola Meadhonach and Rubha Fiola (also known as North and South Fullah), Eilean Iosal and Fiola an Droma.

Dùn Chonnuill

Dùn Chonnuill is a small island in the Garvellachs in the Firth of Lorn, Scotland. Dùn Chonnuill lies north east of Garbh Eileach, the largest island of the archipelago to which it gives its anglicised name. There is a ruined castle, perhaps dating from the mid-13th century, when it was probably one of four castles known to have been held by Ewen MacDougall of Lorn from the Norwegian crown. The first certain reference was in 1343 when the island was granted to John of Islay, Lord of the Isles along with Cairnburgh and "Iselborgh". By 1390 his son Donald had granted half of the constabulary of Dùn Chonnuill to Lachlan Lùbanach Maclean of Duart. Circa 1385 John of Fordun included "the great castle of Dunquhonie" in his list of Hebridean strongholds. The MacLeans continued to hold the island and its castle until the mid-17th century, when ownership passed to the Campbell Earls of Argyll. Dean Monro, writing in 1549, made a brief reference to the isle in his Description of the Western Isles of Scotland referring to "ane strength... ane round Castell". To the northeast there are also the ruins of five roughly rectangular buildings, the largest of which is 12m by 6m in extent. They are all round-cornered and better preserved than the fortifications on the summit but are likely to be of a similar date. The "hereditary keeper" of the castle is Charles Maclean, son of the late Fitzroy Maclean.

Belnahua

Belnahua is one of the Slate Islands, in the Firth of Lorn in Scotland, known for its deserted slate quarries. The bedrock that underpins its human history is part of the Scarba Conglomerate Formation and its value has been on record since the 16th century. Likely uninhabited before commercial quarrying commenced, under the control of the Stevenson family during the 19th century the population expanded to over 150 before the island was abandoned again in 1914. Living on a remote island in the 19th century came with significant hardships and the lives of the quarry workers have been described in unflattering terms by modern commentators, one describing them as in effect "slaves". Today, the ruined buildings and abandoned machinery lie amidst the water filled quarries and are home only to wildlife. There are very strong tidal streams in the area and this a potentially hazardous location for shipping. In 1936 the cargo vessel Helēna Faulbaums was wrecked on the island, with the loss of 15 lives.