The Skye Museum of Island Life is a museum in Kilmuir, Skye, Scotland, which is dedicated to preserving a township of thatched cottages as they would...
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The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (/skaɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands...
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Heribusta (category Populated places in the Isle of Skye)
from the A855 at Kilmuir Hall and rejoins the A855 1 mile further north near the Skye Museum of Island Life. Along this road one also finds the Kilmuir...
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the west coast of the Trotternish peninsula in the north of the island of Skye, and a civil parish covering the north of the peninsula. It is in the Scottish...
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Argyll and Bute The Gearrannan Blackhouses, Isle of Lewis Skye Museum of Island Life, near Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore Industrial...
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Trotternish (category Landforms of the Isle of Skye)
Gaelic: Tròndairnis) is the northernmost peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, spanning in length from Portree to Rubha Hunish. The Trotternish escarpment...
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Inner Hebrides (redirect from History of the Inner Hebrides)
climate. The Inner Hebrides comprise 35 inhabited islands as well as 44 uninhabited islands with an area greater than 30 hectares (74 acres). Skye, Mull...
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grew by 4% to 103,702. The geology and geomorphology of the islands is varied. Some, such as Skye and Mull, are mountainous, while others like Tiree and...
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Flora MacDonald (category Prisoners in the Tower of London)
him more conspicuous. The next day, the Prince was taken from Portree to the island of Raasay, while MacDonald remained on Skye. MacDonald was subsequently...
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Hebrides (redirect from History of the Hebrides)
bridge. The 1973 film, The Wicker Man, is set on the fictional Hebridean island of Summerisle. The filming itself took place in Galloway and Skye I Know...
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HMY Britannia (redirect from The Royal Yacht Britannia)
the remainder of the month, was home to the Queen and her family for an annual cruise around the islands off the west coast of Scotland (known as the...
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The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, dedicated to the life of Scottish-American industrialist...
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Gavin Maxwell (redirect from Lords of the Atlas)
to the lighthouse keepers' cottages on Eilean Bàn (White Island), an island between the Isle of Skye and the Scottish mainland by the village of Kyleakin...
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The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was published on 1 January 1896. The novel is set between...
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Colin Gibson (artist) (category Alumni of Gray's School of Art)
wrote nature diaries in the Dundee Courier. Gibson loved nature and visited the island of Rona, near Skye in 1933–34 to study the flora and fauna. He married...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Scotland. This list of museums in Scotland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions...
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ShipSpace (category Maritime museums in Scotland)
was an interactive maritime museum in Inverness, Scotland. The museum was situated along the historic Caledonian Canal at the Muirtown Basin. A 1:10 scale...
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Morayvia (category Aerospace museums in Scotland)
Morayvia is an aviation museum located in Kinloss, Moray, Scotland near to Kinloss Barracks (the former RAF Kinloss) a frontline Royal Air Force station...
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Jura, Scotland (redirect from Island of Jura)
visible from the Mull of Kintyre and, on a clear day, from the Isle of Skye and Northern Ireland. The route of the annual Isle of Jura Fell Race includes...
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Benbecula (redirect from Isle of Benbecula)
the Jacobite cause, and smuggled him off the island to safety, as the song has it: "over the sea to Skye". In 2006, local residents took control of parts...
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Yell, Shetland (redirect from Island of Yell)
off the coast. Notable buildings on the island include the 17th-century Old Haa of Brough in Burravoe, a merchant's house now converted to a museum and...
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Eilean Donan (redirect from Island of Donnán)
is a small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs (Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh) in the western Highlands of Scotland, about...
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Easdale (redirect from Easdale Island)
tidal islands are excluded. Eilean Bàn, which is part of the Skye Bridge and Eilean Donan, which is tidal, were both inhabited at the time of the 2001...
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The Isle of Bute (Scots: Buit; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach), known as Bute (/bjuːt/), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland...
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Scottish Highlands (redirect from History of the Scottish Highlands)
Wester Ross The Glenfinnan Viaduct from below. The Saddle Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye Inverness The islands of Loch Maree The interior of Smoo Cave, Sutherland...
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Rùm (redirect from Island of Rum)
page 40. Description of the Suisnish clearances on nearby Skye: "The Skye and Raasay Clearances – 1853". Video from A history of Scotland: This Land is...
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is the second-largest settlement on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Lying in the shadow of the Red Cuillin mountains, Broadford is within the parish of Strath...
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RRS Discovery (redirect from The RRS Discovery)
1979. That year she was placed in the care of the Maritime Trust as a museum ship. In 1986 she was moved to Dundee, the city where she was built. After...
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Lewis during the economic slump of the 1880s, with several land raids (in common with Skye, Uist and Tiree); this quietened down as the island economy recovered...
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Angus MacAskill (section Museum and legacy)
The "Giant MacAskill Museum" was also established in 1989 at Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye and is operated there by a community group, this museum having...
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