Tour Scotland Photograph Cantick Head Lighthouse Orkney Islands

Tour Scotland photograph of Cantick Head Lighthouse, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Cantick Head Lighthouse is situated at the tip of the Walls peninsula attached to the island of Hoy overlooking Cantick Sound and the southern entrance to Scapa Flow in the Pentland Firth. The light was first exhibited on the night of 15 July 1858. A fog horn was established in October 1913 and discontinued in 1987. The light was automated in 1991.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Muckle Flugga Lighthouse Shetland Islands

Tour Scotland photograph of Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, north of Unst in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Muckle Flugga, a small rocky island, is home to the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, built by Thomas and David Stevenson in 1854, originally to protect ships during the Crimean War. Muckle Flugga was one of the few lighthouses in Scotland which had a separate shore station that served as accommodation for the lighthouse keepers when they were off duty, similar to Sule Skerry and its shore station in Stromness, Orkney. The shore station was sold off when the lighthouse was automated.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Ardnamurchan Lighthouse

Tour Scotland photograph of Ardnamurchan Lighthouse, Lochaber, Scotland. Ardnamurchan lighthouse is a 36 metre tall, pink granite tower built in 1849 by Alan Stevenson. It is the only lighthouse in the UK built in the Egyptian style. The light was automated in 1988 and is now operated remotely by the Northern Lighthouse Board from Edinburgh.



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Street View Causeway Benbecula Scotland

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Street view of A865 Main road, causeway, from North Uist to South Uist via Island of Benbecula to Lochboisdale, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Sound Of Eriskay

Tour Scotland photograph of fishing boats and the Sound Of Eriskay from South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. South Uist was clearly home to a thriving Neolithic community. The island is covered in archaeological sites including chambered tombs, Beaker sites, a Bronze Age hoard, roundhouses, brochs, cairns, ogham inscriptions, Viking settlements, medieval longhouses and post-medieval industry. Bornais on South Uist was the largest Viking settlement known in Scotland. After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald who made a good living from kelp harvesting owing to the demand for kelp around the turn of the 19th century.



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