Eigg (/ɛɡ/ eg; Scottish Gaelic: Eige; Scots: Eigg) is one of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It lies to the south of the Isle of Skye...
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Eigg is a Scottish Island. Eigg may also refer to: Eigg Mountain: a highland region in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada MV Eigg, a 1974 car ferry...
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Saint Donnán of Eigg (also known as Donan; died 17 April 617) was a Gaelic priest, likely from Ireland, who attempted to introduce Christianity to the...
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An Sgùrr is the highest hill on the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It was formed 58.72 ± 0.07 million years ago; the result...
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MV Eigg is a landing craft car ferry built for Caledonian MacBrayne in 1974. She was owned by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited and operated mostly on...
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view of Eigg (Landsat image viewed using NASA World Wind software). Eilean Chathastail is the island in the bottom right of the picture Map of Eigg 1892...
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Eigg Mountain is high plateau (between 225 and 300 metres above sea level), part of the highlands of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally...
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1891, Canna, Rùm and Muck were historically part of the shire of Argyll; Eigg was historically part of Inverness-shire. All of the Small Isles were in...
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- containing numerous peninsulas and offshore islands. The small isle of Eigg is also within Inverness-shire, despite the other Small Isles being in Argyllshire...
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Eilean Donan, which means simply "island of Donnán", is named after Donnán of Eigg, a Celtic saint who was martyred in 617. Donnán is said to have established...
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Skye, Inverie in Knoydart, Lochboisdale on South Uist and the isles of Rùm, Eigg, Muck, and Canna. Mallaig is the main commercial fishing port on the west...
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Inverness-shire PH PH40, PH41 Mallaig Inverness-shire PH PH42 ISLE OF EIGG Isle of Eigg PH PH43 ISLE OF RUM Isle of Rum PH PH44 ISLE OF CANNA Isle of Canna...
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Ireland Landegode 30.5 12 Norway Kalsoy 30.4 11.7 Denmark ( Faroe Islands) Eigg 30 11.5 United Kingdom ( Scotland) Lidingö 30 11.5 Sweden Gavdos 29.6 11...
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coast of Alaska Egg Island (Georgia) In Antarctica: Egg Island (Antarctica) Eigg This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations...
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Mountains Slieve Gullion – Ring of Gullion AONB Arran Mull Ardnamurchan Rùm Eigg Skye St Kilda Rockall Those occurrences within the Hebrides are sometimes...
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version, which gives the boat's course (Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow) seems to describe Charles's flight from the mainland...
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the same name that lies 400 m east of the southern tip of the island of Eigg, north of Eilean Chathastail. The rock is home to a large colony of seabirds...
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Galmisdale (redirect from Galmisdale, Isle of Eigg)
Eigg, one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. It is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Galmisdale, Eigg"...
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Bute Isle of Skye Raasay Rona (disambiguation) Soay (disambiguation) Muck Eigg Rùm Shuna Colonsay Oronsay Scarba Easdale Jura Islay Mull Ulva Gometra Iona...
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Glenfinnan Viaduct, through Arisaig with its views of the Small Isles of Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna, and the white sands of Morar before coming to Mallaig itself...
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example is a story of a birlinn which was driven ashore on the island of Eigg. The crew were refused provisions and in consequence they slaughtered some...
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113–116 "Amersham Martyrs Memorial". Retrieved 13 March 2021. "Isle of Eigg – Small Isles". www.scotlandinfo.eu. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 13 March...
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around the south coast. Together these form the Eigg Lava Formation, a greater part of which is exposed on Eigg itself. The lava flows are cut through by a...
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402 m 1319 ft Antigua and Barbuda Qeshm unnamed point 397 m 1302 ft Iran Eigg An Sgùrr 393 m 1289 ft United Kingdom (Scotland) Curaçao Mount Christoffel...
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very resistant to erosion. The pitchstone ridge of An Sgùrr on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland, was possibly formed as a lava flow in a valley. Pitchstone from...
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Clann Ruaidhrí, a branch of Somerled's heirs, ruled Barra, as well as Uist, Eigg, Rùm, the Rough Bounds, Bute, Arran, and northern Jura. In the 13th century...
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appointed under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. The island of Eigg or Egg was already in Inverness-shire. Argyll was abolished as a county for...
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William, Glenfinnan, Grantown-on-Spey, Invergarry, Isle of Canna, Isle of Eigg, Isle of Rum, Kingussie, Kinlochleven, Lochailort, Mallaig, Nethy Bridge...
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Minamidaitōjima 30.57 Largest island of the Daitō Islands, part of Japan. Eigg 30.49 Island part of Scotland. Itsukushima 30.33 Island part of Japan. Europa...
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Isabella (née McIntyre). His mother moved to Edinburgh as a teenager from Eigg, one of the Small Isles in the Hebrides, and was a native Gaelic speaker...
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