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Arctic tern
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae.
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Basking shark
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.
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Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
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Canna, Scotland
Canna (Canaigh; Eilean Chanaigh) is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.
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Charles Alexander Stevenson
Charles Alexander Stevenson MICE MIEE FRSE (1855, Edinburgh – 1950) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who built twenty three lighthouses in and around Scotland.
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Common tern
The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae.
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David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson FRSE MIME FRSSA MICE (21 July 1854 in Edinburgh – 11 April 1938) was a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland.
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Eider
Eiders are large seaducks in the genus Somateria.
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Garbh Sgeir
Not to be confused with the nearby islet of the same name that lies 400 m east of the southern tip of the island of Eigg, north of Eilean Chathastail. Garbh Sgeir (Gaelic: 'rough skerry') is a rock about 100 metres west of the islet Òigh-sgeir, in the Small Isles, Lochaber, Scotland.
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Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGSThe Rocks Remain, Gavin Maxwell, Longmans, 1963, ASIN: B0000CLY9N (15 July 19147 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his nonfiction writing and his work with otters.
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Gazetteer for Scotland
The Gazetteer for Scotland is a gazetteer covering the geography, history and people of Scotland.
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Golf course
A golf course is the grounds where the game of golf is played.
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Haskeir
Not to be confused with Hyskeir or Heskeir Haskeir (Eilean Hasgeir), also known as Great Haskeir (Hasgeir Mhòr) is a remote, exposed and uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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Hyskeir Lighthouse
Hyskeir Lighthouse was established in 1904.
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Inner Hebrides
The Inner Hebrides (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan a-staigh, "the inner isles") is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.
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Monach Islands
Not to be confused with Heysker/Hyskeir (Small Isles) or Haskeir The Monach Islands, also known as Heisker (Eilean Heisgeir / Heisgeir), are an island group west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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Oban
Oban (An t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.
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Old Norse
Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.
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Peter Hill (writer)
Peter Hill is the author of Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper, a book describing his time as a lighthouse-keeper at the Pladda, Ailsa Craig and Hyskeir lighthouses in 1973.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.
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Pitchstone
Pitchstone is a dull black glassy volcanic rock formed when felsic lava or magma cools quickly.
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Rùm
Rùm(), a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic (Gàidhlig) or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually too small for human habitation.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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The Minch
The Minch (An Cuan Sgitheanach, An Cuan Sgìth, Cuan na Hearadh, An Cuan Leòdhasach), also called North Minch, is a strait in north-west Scotland, separating the north-west Highlands and the northern Inner Hebrides from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides.
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W. H. Murray
William Hutchison Murray (18 March 1913 – 19 March 1996) was a Scottish mountaineer and writer, one of a group of active mountain climbers, mainly from Clydeside, before and just after World War II.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyskeir
