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  • Inisheer, Aran Islands, Ireland. Stone structures built over thousands of years cover the Aran Islands on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland.
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  • Stone structures built over thousands of years cover the Aran Islands on the west coast of the Republic of Ireland.  Stone fences lace the landscape of the island of Inisheer.<br />
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©Jim Richardson  All rights reserved. You can see more of my work at:  www.jimrichardsonphotography.com
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  • Graveyard and church close by the sea on Inishmor.  In the graveyard is Teaghlach Einne, an early church dedicated to St. Einne, and the saint's reputed grave site.
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  • Hattervik, a small village in the Faroe Islands halfway between Orkney and Iceland
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  • National Geographic Explorer visits Aitcho Island in the South Shetland Islands, home to a large colony of penguins, including Gentoo penguins.
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  • The ancient Irish hill fort of Dun Aengus, perched 300 feet above the crashing Atlantic waves on the wes, is a great place to see and sense the Celts taking a last stand with their backs to the sea, and no place else to go. The whole island of Inishmoor is hardly anything more that rocks and great sea views, but it was all they had.  <br />
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Dun Aonghasa<br />
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 A 700BC stone fort, the rival of any in Europe. The fort stretches to the cliff edge on the western side of the Island and the fact that it remains is testimony to the skills and determination of ancient Celtic tribesmen who lived, worked and fought here 3000 years ago. The sight of the ancient building, the sound of crashing waves against the cliff face below, and the sweet sea air, guarantee that this site stays in the memory of visitors. There are less people around in the evening if you want a chance to see the area on your own. Be careful on the cliff face. Two other impressive stone forts, Dun Eochla and Dun Duchathair are also worth the visit.<br />
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Aerial views of the rugged Aran Islands, on the west coast of Ireland. Ancient Celtic fields and forts dominate the landscape.<br />
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The Celtic fort of Dun Aengus sits atop 300 foot cliffs overlooking the Atlantic.<br />
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Contact: Aran Island Tourist Office, Aran Tourist Office, Kilronan, Aran Islands, Ireland Phone: 359 99 61263
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.
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  • ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.ST. KILDA, HEBRIDES, SCODTLAND, UK -- The St. Kilda group of islands is famous for vast bird colonies and the melancholy story of the islanders evacutation from the island in 1930 after 2,000 years of occupation.To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The Faroe Islands halfway between Orkney and Iceland
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  • The beautiful Rackwick Valley and beach on Hoy are some of the most dramatic scenery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The wide beach is strewn with massive stones, polished round by the unrelenting sea.
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Dancing at an island Ceilidh in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Scilly Islands off the tip of Cornwall, in the UK.  Famed for its climate that promotes lucious growth, including palm trees.
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  • Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Scilly Islands off the tip of Cornwall, in the UK.  Famed for its climate that promotes lucious growth, including palm trees.
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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney, Scotland.  Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. The highests sea cliffs in Europe, on the North Side of St. Kilda, seen from the Gap. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.) Orkney, Scotland
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  • Puffin on the Shiant Isles, The Hebrides, Scotland. <br />
The Shiant Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Mòra), also known in Gaelic as "The Enchanted Isles" (Na h-Eileanan Seunta) are a privately owned island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are five miles south east of Lewis. <br />
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The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The Shiant Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Mòra), also known in Gaelic as "The Enchanted Isles" (Na h-Eileanan Seunta) are a privately owned island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are five miles south east of Lewis. <br />
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The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. The highests sea cliffs in Europe, on the North Side of St. Kilda, seen from the Gap.
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  • Members of the St. Magnus Chorus rehearse in  St. Magnus Cathedral for a performance during the St. Magnus Festival, a weeklong event that brings major performers to the island towns of Kirkwall (here) and Stromness. Orkney, Scotland
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  • The Broch of Gurness on the shores of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  The Broch is a large stone dwelling in the form of a circular stone fortification.  These views look across from the top of the wall, down into the central dwelling and then across the sea to the island of Rousay to the north.  Brochs are a common feature of the coast of Orkney which is littered with stone age sites.
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  • Lobster fishermen return to North Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland after a morning working their lobster pots.  The boat is a North Ronaldsay Pram, unique to this small island of about 60 peope. The lighthouse is the Old Beacon at Dennis Head, built in 1789 by Thomas Smith.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Students at the Stomness Academy, Orkney, scotland take a nautical class which is best described as "Drivers Education" on the water. Almost all students take the class which strives to give them a modicum of knowledge and familiarity with water saftey on an Island where water is one of the few constants.  This was a fairly new class, just trying to learn to row together.  Some of the kids had a bit more experience than others.
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  • A North Ronaldsay Pram, a type of fishing boat particular to that island, on the shore of North Ronaldsay, gOrkney, Scotland
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
    MM7701_20080625_3232.jpg
  • The Shiant Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Mòra), also known in Gaelic as "The Enchanted Isles" (Na h-Eileanan Seunta) are a privately owned island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are five miles south east of Lewis. <br />
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The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater<br />
Dun Carloway was probably built some time in the 1st century BC, and radiocarbon dating evidence from remains found in the broch show that it was last occupied around 1300 AD.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
    MM7701_20080625_3232.jpg
  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • The Uig Sands are a dramatic bay on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis.  Seen here at low tide in the evening from the hills surrounding Baile na Cille, a small inn at Timsgarry.<br />
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Uig is a 'bay backed machair and hills' on the western coast of the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The name derives from the Norse word Vik meaning 'a bay'.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.
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  • On Orkney, the group of islands off the north coast of Scotland.Balfour Castle is the focal point of Shapinsay, one of the islands in Orkney.
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  • Former Laird of Muck, Lawrence MacEwan on Beinn Airein, the highest hill on the island. The island has ben in the hands of the MacEwan family since 1896, for four generations. <br />
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Muck is the smallest of four main islands in the Small Isles, part of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It measures roughly 2.5 miles (4 km) east to west and has a population of around 30, mostly living near the harbour at Port Mòr. The other settlement on the island is the farm at Gallanach. The island's only road, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, connects the two.
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  • St. Kilda is a small group of islands some 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland.  It is famous for its bird colonies and the story of the evacuation of the people of St. Kilda in 1930, after thousands of years of human occupation.  A beautiful day.
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  • Carloway Broch at Carloway on the Isle of Lewis is believed to date from 100 to 300 BC.  Though massive it is not thought to be a fortification as such, but a impressive dwelling for a small community.Dun Carloway (in Scottish Gaelic Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It is a remarkably well preserved broch - on the east side parts of the old wall still reaches to 9 metres tall. In places there are also more modern repairs to the east wall. At the base the broch is around 14 to 15 metres in diameter and the walls around 3 metres thick.<br />
Dun Carloway was probably built some time in the 1st century BC, and radiocarbon dating evidence from remains found in the broch show that it was last occupied around 1300 AD.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Clouds trail off of the Isle of Boreray, St. Kilda, Scotland, an Atlantic Have for seabirds.
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  • The Uig Sands are a dramatic bay on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis.  Seen here at low tide in the evening from the hills surrounding Baile na Cille, a small inn at Timsgarry.  <br />
To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Puffins on the Shiant Isles, The Hebrides, Scotland. The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Spreading malted grain for drying in Highland Park Distillery, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Composer Peter Maxwell Davies conducting the London Symphony in Orkney, Scotland at the St. Magnus Festival.
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  • Highland cow grazing in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Seagulls follow a fishing boat in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Rowing out to his boat in the evening in Stromness harbor, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • Stromness is a fishing village in Orkney, Scotland.
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  • Orkney, Scotland
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  • The Uig Sands are a dramatic bay on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis.  Seen here at low tide in the evening from the hills surrounding Baile na Cille, a small inn at Timsgarry.
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  • Boreray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • With a great tradition of myth, music and literature Orkney folk very much appreciate Margaret Leask and a couple of friends at the regular Saturday night entertainment in the bar at the Royal Hotel in Stromness.  They play a lot of Scottish music, reels and the like, and then get around to everything including Turkey in the Straw.  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Stromness is an historic fishing town in Orkney, Scotland. Once a whaling port with houses laid out along the harbor.
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  • St. Magnus Kirk on Egilsay, Orkney, Scotland. Believed to be built on the site where St. Magnus was martyred during a dispute with his cousin.
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  • Orkney farmer Ronald Simison in the Tomb of the Eagles holding one of the skulls he discovered during his excavation of the site.  He discovered the tomb in 1958 and excated it some 20 years later, tired of waiting for the officials to get around to the job.  Now he and his daughters have made a small business of the tomb, operating it as a hands-on museum.  It is on Isbister Farm on South Ronaldsay.  Eagle claws found with the skulls indicated the status of the people burried in the chambered cairn.
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  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset. In the Hebrides of Scotland. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The Old Beacon lighthouse at Dennis Head, built in 1789 by Thomas Smith, on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Sheep bedding down for the evening amongst the Stones of Stenness, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Cat at an abondoned croft house in the Rackwick Valley on the Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Farms with rich grazing land in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Grave stones dating from the 1600's line the inside walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.  The design of the stone is traditional with several Orkney twists.  The skull and crossbones remind us all (as if we needed it) or our mortality.  At the time it was common for an Orkney bride to prepare burial shroulds for herself and her husband at the same time that she was making a blanket for the first bairn (child.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Clouds form in the Atlantic winds blowing over Boreray, St. Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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  • The Shiant Isles have a large population of seabirds, including tens of thousands Atlantic Puffins breeding in burrows on the slopes of Garbh Eilean, as well as significant numbers of Common Guillemots, Razorbills, Northern Fulmars, Black-legged Kittiwakes, Common Shags, gulls and Great Skuas. Although St Kilda has more puffins, the sheer density on the Shiants is greater.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Boreray, St. Kilda
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11?51?N, 06°44?41?W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.
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  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
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  • Carloway Broch at Carloway on the Isle of Lewis is believed to date from 100 to 300 BC.  Though massive it is not thought to be a fortification as such, but a impressive dwelling for a small community.Dun Carloway (in Scottish Gaelic Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. It is a remarkably well preserved broch - on the east side parts of the old wall still reaches to 9 metres tall. In places there are also more modern repairs to the east wall. At the base the broch is around 14 to 15 metres in diameter and the walls around 3 metres thick.<br />
Dun Carloway was probably built some time in the 1st century BC, and radiocarbon dating evidence from remains found in the broch show that it was last occupied around 1300 AD.
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  • Mangersta Beach on the Isle of Lewis, The Hebrides, Scotland. <br />
The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset. To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland.<br />
To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • The dramatic bay at Uig creates a huge beach as the tides drain out every day on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. Flowers grow profusely the machair, soils formed by blow shell sand from the beaches.  The surrounding dunes are held in place by colonizing grasses.  The dunes are also famous as the site where the Lewis Chessmen were found, thousand year old chess pieces found in the dunes.
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  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset.
    MM7701_20080629_5707.jpg
  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset.
    MM7701_20080629_5549.jpg
  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset.
    MM7701_20080629_5269.jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9300.jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
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  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
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  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9721.jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9599.jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9300.jpg
  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland.<br />
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  • The Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Dating from the neolithic era.
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11?51?N, 06°44?41?W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.  <br />
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11?51?N, 06°44?41?W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.
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  • The long beach and cliffs at Mangersta on the west coat of the Isle of Lewis are dramatic for their sheer cliffs and rugged sea stacks.  Seen here at sunset.
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  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9821 (1).jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9255.jpg
  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland.<br />
To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
    MM7701_20080704_9068.jpg
  • Berneray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
    MM7701_20080705_9300.jpg
  • Boreray is four miles from St, Kilda, famed for its fantastic bird colonies.  Uninhabited, remote and wild, it was the site of incredible feats of cliff climbing by the St. Kildans who hunted the birds.
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  • Morning fog shrouds the hills of the Isle of Lewis south and west of Callanish.
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  • The Callanish Stones (or "Callanish I"), Clachan Chalanais or Tursachan Chalanais in Gaelic, are situated near the village of Callanish (Gaelic: Calanais) on the west coast of the isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), Scotland ( 58°11′51″N, 06°44′41″W).<br />
Construction of the site took place between 2900 and 2600 BC, though there were possibly earlier buildings before 3000 BC. A tomb was later built into the site. Debris from the destruction of the tomb suggests the site was out of use between 2000 BC and 1700 BC.[1] The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north, and shorter stone rows to the east, south, and west (possibly incomplete avenues). The overall layout of the monument recalls a distorted Celtic cross. The individual stones vary from around 1 m to 5 m in height, with an average of 4 m, and are of the local Lewisian gneiss.
    MM7701_20080702_7155.jpg
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