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Benbecula (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn na Faoghla, meaning "the mountain of the ford") is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. In the 2001 census it had a usually resident population of 1,249. It forms part of the area administered by the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar or Western Isles Council. The island lies between the islands of North Uist and South Uist, to which it is connected by road causeways. Travel to any of the other Hebridean islands, or to the Scottish mainland must be ...

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Barra or Eilean Bharraigh (in Gaelic) is a mostly Roman Catholic and predominantly Gaelic-speaking island, and the southernmost inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides (Eilean Siar) in Scotland. At the 2001 census the resident population was 1,172. The Clan MacNeil has strong ties to the Isle of Barra and can trace its lineage back to the O'Neills of Ulster who came to Barra from Ireland around the year 1000. Barra's main village is Castlebay (Bàgh a' Chaisteil). The village is home to Kisimul Castle, hered ...

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• Barra - Getting to and from Barra
• Barra - Flag

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Alan Reid Jackie Baillie George Lyon Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area. The region adjoins those of Highland, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire. Its border runs through Loch Lomond. The principal part of the council region was part of the traditional county of Argyll, excluding the Morvern area, north of Mull, which is now part of Highl ...

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• Argyll and Bute - Towns and villages
• Argyll and Bute - Places of interest
• Argyll and Bute - Islands

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Caledonian MacBrayne (usually shortened to Cal-Mac) is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries between the mainland of Scotland and all major islands on Scotland's West coast. It is publicly-owned and controlled by the Scottish Executive. Caledonian MacBrayne - History. The company, initially known as David Hutcheson & Co., began in 1851 as a private steamship operator, plying the Caledonian Canal and the Firth of Clyde. With the retirement of its founders in the 1870s, their partner ...

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• Caledonian MacBrayne - History
• Caledonian MacBrayne - Business
• Caledonian MacBrayne - Routes

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City status in the United Kingdom is granted by the British monarch to a select group of communities. The status does not apply automatically on the basis of any particular criteria, although it was traditionally given to towns with diocesan cathedrals. This association between having a cathedral and being called a city was established in the early 1540s when Henry VIII founded dioceses (and therefore cathedrals) in six English towns and also granted them all city status by issuing Letters Patent. City status is confe ...

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• City status in the United Kingdom - City status
• City status in the United Kingdom - List of cities
• City status in the United Kingdom - Cities now in the Republic of Ireland
• City status in the United Kingdom - City councils
• City status in the United Kingdom - City applications
• City status in the United Kingdom - Cathedral towns
• City status in the United Kingdom - Large towns

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The A85 is a major road in Scotland. It runs east from Oban along the south bank of Loch Etive, through Lochawe and Tyndrum, Crianlarich, Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Crieff before terminating at Perth. The A90 road from Perth to Dundee was previously a continuation of the A85, which now reemerges nearly 20 miles east to run through the city of Dundee. Between Tyndrum and Crianlarich the road becomes the A82, ...

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The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (officially known by their Gaelic name, Na h-Eileanan Siar) comprise an island chain off the west coast of Scotland. They form part of the Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the stormy stretch of water known as the Minch and the Little Minch. Most communities in the Outer Hebrides use the Scottish Gaelic language. The name for the UK Parliament constituency covering this area is Na h-Eileanan an Iar, whilst the Scottish Parliament constituency ...

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• Outer Hebrides - Local government
• Outer Hebrides - Main island group
• Outer Hebrides - Other islands
• Outer Hebrides - Flags of the Western Isles
• Outer Hebrides - Ferries

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Colonsay is an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull. The island's total population is about 100 people. Colonsay's main settlement is Scalasaig on its east coast, from which ferries sail to Oban or Kennacraig via Port Askaig. Colonsay is the ancestral home of the MacFie (McPhee) Clan, although many current inhabitants have the surname McNeill. The island is known for Colonsay House, the eighth century Riasg Buidhe Cross, its sandy beaches, its wild goats, and for birds including kittiwakes, cormorants, guillemots and golden eagles. The i ...

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Argyll (Airthir-Ghaidheal in Gaelic, translated as [the] East Gael, or [the] East Irish), sometimes called Argyllshire, is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. The name recalls the settlement of natives of Ireland settleing there in the pre-historic and early historic eras. Since they were to the east of the island of Ireland, they and their new homeland were collectively refered to as Argyll. The historic county town is the town of Inveraray, which is still the seat of the Duke of Argyll. The principal towns are O ...

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Coll is a small island (about 13 miles long and 3 miles wide) in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, west of Mull. It has a population of less than 200. The island has a small village, Arinagour, from which ferries sail to Scarinish on Tiree and to Oban on the mainland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for two castles, both named Breachacha Castle. The older dates from the fifteenth century. Coll was home to a branch of the Clan MacLean for 500 years, not all of w ...

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Mull has a coastline of 300 miles (≈480 km). Its landscape is primarily moorland, with a few peaks, and its climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream. The highest peak on the island is Ben More (3169 ft / 966 metres). 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. Minke whales, porpoises and dolphins are among the sea life ...

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Isle of Mull, Isle of Mull - Features, Isle of Mull - History, Isle of Mull - Tour of Mull, Isle of Mull - Movies and TV, Isle of Mull - Geography, Isle of Mull - Settlements, Isle of Mull - Islands

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Captain Cook was the first European to sight the island, but he thought it was attached to the South Island so he named it South Cape in 1770. The Stewart component of the current name recalls Captain William Stewart, a sealer/whaler who in 1809 was the first to accurately chart the island. The original Maori name, Te Punga o Te Waka a Maui, positions Stewart Island/Rakiura firmly at the heart of Maori mythology. Translated as The Anchor Stone of Maui’s Canoe, it refers to the part played by this Island in the legend of Maui and his crew, who from their canoe, the Sout ...

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Stewart Island/Rakiura, Stewart Island/Rakiura - History and naming, Stewart Island/Rakiura - Geography, Stewart Island/Rakiura - Settlements, Stewart Island/Rakiura - Communications and economy, Stewart Island/Rakiura - Government, Stewart Island/Rakiura - Geo-Magnetic Anomaly

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Submarine communications cable - Trials. After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the Atlantic Ocean began to be thought of as a possible triumph of the future. Samuel Morse proclaimed his faith in it as early as the year 1840, and in 1842 he submerged a wire, insulated with tarred hemp and india rubber, in the water of New York harbour, and telegraphed through it. The following autumn Wheatstone performed a similar experiment i ...

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Submarine communications cable, Submarine communications cable - History, Submarine communications cable - Trials, Submarine communications cable - The first commercial cables, Submarine communications cable - Transatlantic telegraph cable, Submarine communications cable - Construction, Submarine communications cable - Bandwidth problems, Submarine communications cable - Transatlantic telephony, Submarine communications cable - Expanding the network, Submarine communications cable - Technological developments, Submarine communications cable - Technology, Submarine communications cable - Economics, Submarine communications cable - Cultural reaction, Submarine communications cable - Owners and operators of submarine communications cables, Submarine communications cable - Owners and operators of cable-laying ships, Submarine communications cable - List of international submarine communications cables, Submarine communications cable - A, Submarine communications cable - B, Submarine communications cable - C, Submarine communications cable - D, Submarine communications cable - E, Submarine communications cable - F, Submarine communications cable - G, Submarine communications cable - H, Submarine communications cable - I, Submarine communications cable - J, Submarine communications cable - K, Submarine communications cable - L, Submarine communications cable - M, Submarine communications cable - N, Submarine communications cable - O, Submarine communications cable - P, Submarine communications cable - Q, Submarine communications cable - R, Submarine communications cable - S, Submarine communications cable - T, Submarine communications cable - U, Submarine communications cable - V, Submarine communications cable - W, Submarine communications cable - X, Submarine communications cable - Y, Submarine communications cable - Z

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Barra's tiny airport, near Northbay, is unique in Britain in that the runway is a beach (Cockle Strand). Planes can only land and take off at low tide meaning that the timetable varies. The beach is also a source of cockles. Castlebay (Bàgh a' Chaisteil) is the main ferry port from which ferries sail to Oban on the Scottish mainland and Lochboisdale (Loch Baghasdail) on South Uist (Uibhist a Tuath). A vehicular ferry also travels between Ceann a' Gharaidh on Eriskay (Eiriosgaighy) and Ardmore (Aird MhòrSee also:

Barra, Barra - Getting to and from Barra, Barra - Flag

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Charters originated as charters of incorporation, allowing a town to become an incorporated borough, or to hold markets. Some of these charters recognised officially that the town involved was a city. Apart from recognition, it became accepted that such a charter could make a town into a city. The earliest examples of these are Hereford and Worcester, both of which date their city status to 1189. Until the 16th century, a town was invariably recognised as a city by the Crown if it had a diocesan cathedral within its limits. This has l ...

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City status in the United Kingdom, City status in the United Kingdom - City status, City status in the United Kingdom - List of cities, City status in the United Kingdom - Cities now in the Republic of Ireland, City status in the United Kingdom - City councils, City status in the United Kingdom - City applications, City status in the United Kingdom - Cathedral towns, City status in the United Kingdom - Large towns

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The company enjoys a de-facto monopoly on the shipment of freight and vehicles to the islands, and competes for passenger traffic only with number of aircraft services of varying quality and reliability. Nonetheless, few if any of the routes currently operated by Cal-Mac are profitable, and the company receives significant government subsidies due to its vital role in supplying the islands (these routes are classified "lifeline" services). In 1996 Cal-Mac opened its first route outside Scotland, winning a ten year contract to provide lifeli ...

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Caledonian MacBrayne, Caledonian MacBrayne - History, Caledonian MacBrayne - Business, Caledonian MacBrayne - Routes

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Loch Druidibeg in the north of the island is a National Nature Reserve owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage. The reserve covers 34.33 square kilometres of machair, bog, freshwater lochs and estuary. Over 200 species of flowering plants have been recorded on the reserve, some of which are nationally scarce. It is considered the best place in the UK for the aquatic plant Slender Naiad (Najas flexili ...

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South Uist, South Uist - Nature Reserve, South Uist - Archaeology, South Uist - Missile testing, South Uist - Flag

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Extreme points of New Zealand - New Zealand overall. Northernmost point — Nugent Island, in the Kermadec Islands Southernmost point — Jacquemart Island (off the south coast of Campbell Island) in the Campbell Island group Westernmost point — Cape Lovitt, Auckland Islands Easternmost point — Kahuitara Point, Pitt Island, in the Chatham Islands (Note: this excludes New Zealand's claims - in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty - over lands in the Ross Dependency, and the Tokelau Islands which - though under Ne ...

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Extreme points of New Zealand, Extreme points of New Zealand - Extreme points, Extreme points of New Zealand - New Zealand overall, Extreme points of New Zealand - The North Island, Extreme points of New Zealand - The South Island, Extreme points of New Zealand - Centres of population, Extreme points of New Zealand - Northernmost settlements, Extreme points of New Zealand - Southernmost settlements, Extreme points of New Zealand - Easternmost settlements, Extreme points of New Zealand - Westernmost settlements

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These radials are supplemented by two-digit codes which are routes that are slightly less important (but may still be classified as trunk routes). These routes are not all centred on London, but as far as possible follow the general principle that their number locates them radially clockwise from the associated single digit route. For example, the A10 (London to King's Lynn) is the first main route clockwise from the A1, the A11 is the next, and so on: A10 London to King's Lynn A11 London to Norwich A12 London ...

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Great Britain road numbering scheme, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Important radial roads in England and Wales, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Important radial roads in Scotland, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Zoning system, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Two-digit A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Other A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Motorway sections of A roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - B roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - C D and U roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Motorways, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Fictional roads, Great Britain road numbering scheme - Ancient roads

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Scott was the third son of George Gilbert Scott (junior). When he was three, his father was declared as of unsound mind and consequently Scott saw little of him: he claimed to remember only seeing him twice. A bequest from his uncle in 1889 gave him ownership of Hollis Street Farm, near Ninfield in Sussex, with a life tenancy to his mother; it was to here that his mother took him in order to escape the occasional violence of her husband. Scott was sent to Beaumont College on the recommendation of his father, not because of any educati ...

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Giles Gilbert Scott, Giles Gilbert Scott - Family, Giles Gilbert Scott - Qualification as an architect, Giles Gilbert Scott - Liverpool Cathedral, Giles Gilbert Scott - Other early work, Giles Gilbert Scott - Inter-war years, Giles Gilbert Scott - Signature buildings, Giles Gilbert Scott - Professional recognition, Giles Gilbert Scott - Late work, Giles Gilbert Scott - Death, Giles Gilbert Scott - Works, Giles Gilbert Scott - Reference, Giles Gilbert Scott - External link

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