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    The Sound of Jura (Scottish Gaelic: An Linne Rosach) is a Sound in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is one of the several Sounds of Scotland. It is to the...
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    settlement is the east coast village of Craighouse, on the Sound of Jura. The Jura distillery, producing Isle of Jura single malt whisky, is in the village...
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    MV Sound of Jura was the first drive-through car ferry on the west coast of Scotland. It was operated by Western Ferries on the Islay service from Kennacraig...
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    farmhouse in the north of the island of Jura in the Scottish Inner Hebrides overlooking the Sound of Jura. It stands on the site of a larger 15th-century...
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    Loch Fyne (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
    it the longest of the sea lochs in Scotland. It is connected to the Sound of Jura by the Crinan Canal. Although there is no evidence that grapes have...
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  • Torsa (category Uninhabited islands of Argyll and Bute)
    protected by the Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area. Torsa lies just offshore from the east coast of Luing. A rough track leads down from...
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  • Western Ferries (category Ferry companies of Scotland)
    offer from the Mexican Government, sold Sound of Jura in 1976. They continued to serve Islay until 1981 using Sound of Islay when she too was withdrawn, unable...
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  • Norwegian-built MV Sound of Jura, but were unable to compete with the subsidised service and started to lose traffic. In September 1981, Sound of Islay was sold...
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    Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It opened in 1801 and connects the village of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp with Crinan on the Sound of Jura, providing a navigable...
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    Craighouse (category Villages on Jura, Scotland)
    situated on the sheltered east coast of the island at the southern end of Small Isles Bay, on the Sound of Jura. Since 2007, a passenger-only ferry service...
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    Knapdale (category Landforms of Argyll and Bute)
    bounded by sea to the east and west (Loch Fyne and the Sound of Jura respectively), whilst the sea loch of West Loch Tarbert almost completely cuts off the...
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    Hebrides, the Firth of Lorn, the Sound of Jura, the Firth of Clyde, Belfast Lough and the North Channel. The IHO defines the limits of the Inner Seas as...
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  • Knapdale in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland on the shores of the Sound of Jura. The castle is said to have been built at the end of the fifteenth century...
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    islands of Jura and Scarba, in Argyll and Bute, off the west coast of mainland Scotland. It is possible for tourists to visit the site by way of boat trips...
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    MV Sound of Soay is a car and passenger ferry, operated by Western Ferries on the upper Clyde between Gourock and Dunoon, Scotland. Sound of Soay was...
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  • 56th parallel north (category Lists of coordinates)
    (secondary coordinates) The 56th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 56 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, Asia,...
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    Sound of Seil is a car and passenger ferry, operated by Western Ferries on the upper Clyde between Gourock and Dunoon, Scotland. Sound of Seil was built...
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  • of Bute, an island in the Kyles of Bute Eilean Dubh, Loch Craignish, an island in Loch Craignish, south of Oban in Argyll Eilean Dubh, Sound of Jura,...
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    Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area is a Marine Protected Area (MPA) off the west coast of Scotland. The MPA, which covers 741 km2 (286 sq mi)...
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  • Iona and Mull Sound of Jura between Jura and Knapdale Sound of Luing between Luing and Lunga Sound of Mull between Mull and Morvern Sound of Raasay between...
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  • Slate Islands, at the northern end of the Sound of Jura, Shuna Island, in Loch Linnhe, offshore from Appin The Journey of Shuna, a manga by Hayao Miyazaki...
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    ends nine miles (fourteen kilometres) away at Crinan sea loch on the Sound of Jura. The canal was designed to provide a short cut between the west coast...
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    Inver Hydro-Electric Scheme (category Jura, Scotland)
    the Sound of Jura. During this period, the station produced some 5 GWh of energy. The Inver Estate lies on the west coast of Jura, to the north of the...
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    Loch Crinan (category Pages using infobox body of water with auto short description)
    seawater loch on the West of Scotland, leading into the Sound of Jura and being the western end of the Crinan Canal. The village of Crinan is at the entrance...
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  • Firth (category Estuaries of Scotland)
    to most of the firths above; it is also applied to the Sound of Sleat, Crowlin Sound, Cuillin Sound, Sound of Jura, Sound of Raasay, and part of Loch Linnhe...
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    Loch Sunart (category Sea lochs of Scotland)
    part of a larger (74,100 hectares or 741 square kilometres) NCMPA, entitled Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura, which extends to include the Sound of Mull...
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    Argyll and Bute (category Council areas of Scotland)
    of Bute) St Columba's Cathedral, Oban St Conan's Kirk, Loch Awe Tarbert Castle West Highland Line West Highland Way Am Fraoch Eilean, Sound of Jura Bernera...
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    NatureScot. Retrieved 7 October 2020. "SiteLink: Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura MPA(NC)". NatureScot. Retrieved 7 October 2020. "SiteLink: Loch Sween...
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    MV Sound of Scarba is a car and passenger ferry, operated by Western Ferries on the River Clyde between Gourock and Dunoon, Scotland Sound of Scarba was...
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    The Sound of Islay (Scottish Gaelic: Caol Ìle) is a narrow strait between the islands of Islay and Jura off the west coast of Scotland. It is about 30...
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