Summer Isles
Coordinates: 58°01′49″N 5°27′12″W / 58.030338°N 5.453436°W
| Summer Isles | |
Scottish Gaelic:  Na h-Eileanan Samhraidh (help·info) |
|
 The Summer Isles from Ben Mòr Coigach |
|
 Summer Isles
Summer Isles shown within the Highland council area |
|
| Population | 5 (2001 Census) |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference | NB992067 |
| Council area | Highland |
| Lieutenancy area | Ross and Cromarty |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ULLAPOOL |
| Postcode district | IV26 |
| Dialling code | 01854 |
| Police | Northern |
| Fire | Highlands and Islands |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | Ross, Skye and Lochaber |
| Scottish Parliament | Ross, Skye and Inverness West |
| List of places: UK • Scotland • | |
The Summer Isles (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Samhraidh, pronounced [nə ˈhelanən ˈs̪auɾɪ]) are an archipelago lying in the mouth of Loch Broom, in the Highland region of Scotland.
Contents |
[edit] Geography
The only inhabited isle, Tanera Mòr, is also the largest. It is home to an Atlantic salmon fish farm, some rental holiday homes, a café and a post office, which has operated its own local post and printed its own stamps since 1970. The island has no roads and the only recognisable path goes around the Anchorage, the sheltered bay on the east side of the island. Boats sail to the island from Achiltibuie and Ullapool.[1]
[edit] Smaller islands
- Bottle Island
- Eilean Dubh
- Glas-leac Beag
- Glas-leac Mòr
- Horse Island
- Isle Martin
- Priest Island (Eilean a' Chlèirich)
- Isle Ristol
- Eilean Mullagrach
- Tanera Beag
- Càrn nan Sgeir
[edit] Conservation
The islands are part of the Assynt-Coigach National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland.[2]
Frank Fraser Darling, an important figure in the development of Scottish conservation, lived on Tanera Mòr for two years in the 1930s. His book, Island Years (published 1940), records his time in the Summer Isles, painting Priest Island as a place of great beauty as well as great wildlife.[3]
[edit] Literature
- The Summer Isles feature in a novella of the same name by Ian R. MacLeod[4]
- The fictional Summer Isle, Cladach Duillich (Sad Shore), features in the 1977 Desmond Bagley novel "The Enemy".
- The pagan island of "Summerisle" featured in the motion picture The Wicker Man (filmed in 1973 & directed by Robin Hardy) is sometimes mistakenly associated with this archipelago, but in actuality The Wicker Man was was filmed around Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway.[5]
[edit] Summer Isles Philatelic Bureau
Since 1970 the Summer Isles Philatelic Bureau has been issuing stamps of the islands for tourists who place them on mail to be carried to the nearest GPO Post Box on the mainland.[6][7]
.JPG)
[edit] References
- ^ "Summer Isles website". http://www.summer-isles.com. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ "National Scenic Areas". SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011.
- ^ "Priest Island". RSPB. http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/p/priestisland/index.asp. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ Steven H Silver. "review of I R MacLeod book". http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/summerisles.html. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ The Wicker Man (1973) filming locations movie-locations.com. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
- ^ "Modern British Local Posts CD Catalogue, 2009 Edition". Phillips. 2003. http://www.seahorsepublishers.com/phillipscatalogues.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ^ "The Post Office" summer-isles.com. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
[edit] External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Summer Isles |
- Panorama of the Summer Isles (QuickTime required)
|
|||||
|
||||||||||
 |
This Highland location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
