Apr 18, 2020
Eilidh Carr on Twitter:
Today's beach walk at Clachan Sands The blue and turquoise colours of the sea were so vivid & bright and always changing in the sunlight.
The white sand is made up from broken shells.
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Eilidh Carr on Twitter:
Today's beach walk at Clachan Sands The blue and turquoise colours of the sea were so vivid & bright and always changing in the sunlight.
The white sand is made up from broken shells.
Summer solstice North Uist taken at 10.33pm
The Scottish Hebrides - known as Innse Gall in Gaelic and Suðreyjar in Old Norse - are divided into the Inner Hebrides (roughly 40 islands, including Staffa, Colonsay, and Islay above) and the Outer Hebrides (15 islands, including the Bernera Islands and the St. Kilda archipelago above), and lie off the west coast of Scotland. Long inhabited (probably 9,000 years or so, if not longer), the islands have borne the brunt of invasion by the Celts, the Norsemen (as part of the Kingdom of the Isles), the English, etc. Of course, the Hebrides are firmly in Scotland, and as such officially use the Royal Mail for their postal needs, but many have printed their own local and/or tourist stamps.
Stamp details: Top left: Issued on: August 1, 1972 From: Staffa, Scotland Colnect #1972-09
Top middle: Issued on: May 21, 2018 From: Isle of Colonsay, Scotland Colnect #2018-06
Top right: Issued on: February 6, 2018 From: Isle of Islay, Scotland Colnect #2018-07
Bottom left: Issued in: 1979 From: Bernera Islands, Scotland Colnect #1979-03
Bottom right: Issued on: December 10, 1969 From: St. Kilda, Scotland Colnect #1969-03
Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: No Claimed by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Member of the Universal Postal Union: No
Made this map this evening! Innse Gall/the Western Isles (my homeland) is one of the most religious communities in Scotland with 89% of the population being religious. 32.4% are affiliated with the [Presbyterian] Church of Scotland, 15.9% with the Catholic Church and 5.5% being affiliated with other Christian groups, predominantly the more orthodox Calvinist Free Church.
This map shows the % of each religious dominion in each inhabited island within the archipelago.
Caution - otters crossing by aclc1
Tha na h-Innse Gall gu math breagha. Tha mi gan iondrainn, bu toigh leam a dhol air ais an aithghearr.