Tour Scotland Photograph Sunset Coast Elgol

Tour Scotland photograph of sunset from the coast at Elgol, Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Elgol, Scottish Gaelic: Ealaghol, on the shores of Loch Scavaig towards the end of the Strathaird peninsula. According to tradition, its name derives from a battle fought with five ships by Aella, a follower of Vortigern, against the Picts and Scots. The Strathaird peninsula was historically a heartland of the Mackinnons, a robustly Jacobite clan. On 4 July 1746, the Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender, found sanctuary at Elgol in the course of his wanderings under the protection of Clan Mackinnon of Mackinnon and Captain John Mackinnon of Elgol.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Tree Loch Etive

Tour Scotland Winter photograph of a tree by Loch Etive near Glen Etive near Glencoe, Scotland. Cruises up Loch Etive followed by carriage trip to Glen Coe were started in 1881 as Oban developed as a fashionable resort. At the north end of Glen Etive lie the two mountains known as the Herdsmen of Etive, Buachaille Etive Mòr and Buachaille Etive Beag. Other peaks accessible from the Glen include Ben Starav, located near the head of Loch Etive, and Beinn Fhionnlaidh on the northern side of the glen. The River Etive is one of Scotland's most popular and challenging white water kayaking runs. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, Deirdre and her love Naoise founded Glen Etive after fleeing Ulster. The Fachen is also known as the Dwarf of Glen Etive.



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Tour Scotland Winter Photograph Dunnottar Castle

Tour Scotland Winter photograph of Dunnottar Castle, Scotland. The ruined medieval fortress situated upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th to 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. Dunnottar played a strategic role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, because of the location: it overlooked the shipping lanes to northern Scotland; and is situated on a narrow coastal terrace that controlled land access to the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen during the medieval period. Both the Jacobites and Hanoverians used Dunnottar Fortress. In 1689 during Viscount Dundee's campaign, fourteen suspected Jacobites from Aberdeen were held in the fortress for approximately a year, including George Liddel, professor of mathematics. In 1715 the Dunnottar cannons were utilized by the Jacobites; following this uprising all the possessions of the Earl Mariscal were forfeit, and the fortress was dismantled three years later. Dunnottar Castle was the runaway winner in an 8th Wonder of the World competition. Elsinore Castle in the film Hamlet was in part Dunnottar Castle.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Winter Sunset Rannoch Moor

Tour Scotland photograph of a Winter sunset at Rannoch Moor in the Highlands of Scotland. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland, where it extends into Perthshire, Lochaber in Highland, and northern Argyll and Bute. When the West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes. Corrour railway station, the highest in Britain, is one of its most remote being 10 miles from the nearest public road, it is located on this section of the line at 1,339 feet. The line takes gentle curves totalling 23 miles across the moorland. The A82 road crosses western Rannoch Moor on its way to Glencoe and Fort William. In the Highlander novel, The Element of Fire, Duncan and Connor MacLeod track the antagonist Khordas to Rannoch Moor. There Duncan defeats Khordas' female companion, Nerissa. In the 1996 film Trainspotting, Tommy and the gang get off an Intercity train to get some fresh air on a hike at Corrour railway station, which is located on Rannoch Moor.



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Tour Scotland Video Bagpipes Music After The Reclaim The Night March In Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland night video of a Scottish piper playing bagpipes music after the Reclaim the Night march outside the current Perth and Kinross council headquarters which are located at the bottom of the High Street near Tay Street by the River Tay on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. PKVAWP understands violence against women as a consequence of the social inequalities which exist between men and women. It recognises that violence against women, children and young people can take many forms and that some women, children and young people may experience different and/or multiple forms of male violence over their lifetime.

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