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Ruins of Cill Chriosd


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Engraving of the Dunvegan Cup


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Carsaig Arches


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The Old Man of Hoy


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Ruins of the church in Trumpan, Skye, where Lady Grange was buried

  • ... that an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange (burial site pictured) kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for thirteen years in various remote parts of western Scotland?
  • ... that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
  • ...that King Rögnvaldr Óláfsson was assassinated by a knight named Ívarr and his accomplices?
  • ... that Mugeary, which is 25 miles from Glenelg in Scotland, is the namesake of a rock found millions of miles away but just a few hundred feet from Glenelg?

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Landing on Stac Lee (from 'St Kilda')


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Outcrop of Lewisian gneiss near Loch Inver


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Monk's cell and standing stone, Eileach an Naoimh, a possible candidate for Hinba


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Arms of Macleod of Macleod


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Rockall, one of the most isolated islets in the world


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Victorian depiction of a MacCrimmon piper


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Dunvegan Castle, Skye


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Sandwick Fish Bed


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The Viking canal leaving Loch na h-Airde


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Up Helly Aa festival


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Whalebone plaque found at the Scar boat burial site


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Skaill House, Orkney


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A party from HMS Vidal hoist the Union Flag over Rockall in 1955


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Stac Dhomhnuill Chaim


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Winter (swimming) and summer plumage of the great auk, in a painting by John Gerrard Keulemans


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A ring of standing stones, which once formed Stanydale Temple's foundations


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Ruined houses on Stroma


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Symbister House, Whalsay


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HMS Vandal


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A romantic Victorian depiction of one of Domhnall's descendants as Lord of the Isles


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Old school house, Mingulay


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Skara Brae


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SMS Hindenburg sunk in Scapa Flow


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Beacon on Lady Isle


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Lang Ayre from Stonga Banks


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Robert M. Adam
Robert M. Adam

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Wreck of the MV Coelleira
Wreck of the MV Coelleira

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