Tour Scotland Travel Video Mallaig Lochaber West Coast Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video of Mallaig, Scottish Gaelic: Malaig, a port in Lochaber, on ancestry visit to the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, Scotland. The village of Mallaig was founded in the 1840s, when Lord Lovat, owner of North Morar Estate, divided up the farm of Mallaigvaig into seventeen parcels of land and encouraged his tenants to move to the western part of the peninsula and turn to fishing as a way of life. The population and local economy expanded rapidly in the 20th century with the arrival of the railway. Ferries operated by Caledonian MacBrayne and Bruce Watt Sea Cruises sail from the port to Armadale on the Isle of Skye, Inverie in Knoydart, and the isles of Rùm, Eigg, Muck, and Canna.

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