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Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa_(pulo)" title="Staffa (pulo) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Staffa (pulo)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafa" title="Stafa – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Stafa" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Staffa" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafa" title="Stafa – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Stafa" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafa" title="Stafa – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Stafa" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa_(pulau)" title="Staffa (pulau) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Staffa (pulau)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa_(Scozia)" title="Staffa (Scozia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Staffa (Scozia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7" title="ستافا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ستافا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffa" title="Staffa – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Staffa" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E5%B3%B6" title="スタファ島 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スタファ島" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a 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href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">Stafa</i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">stafi-oy</i></span></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Meaning of name</th><td class="infobox-data">Old Norse for 'stave or pillar island'.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif" class="mw-file-description" title="Aerial view of Staffa, with The Colonnade in the foreground and Am Buchaille to the right"><img alt="Aerial view of Staffa, with The Colonnade in the foreground and Am Buchaille to the right" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif/330px-STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif" decoding="async" width="255" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif/500px-STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif/960px-STAFFA_ISLAND_-_aerial_view.gif 2x" data-file-width="1917" data-file-height="1077" /></a></span><br />Aerial view of Staffa, with The Colonnade in the foreground and Am Buchaille to the right</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Location</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Staffa&params=56.43_N_6.33_W_"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">56°26′N</span> <span class="longitude">6°20′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for 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title="Argyll and Bute">Argyll and Bute</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Sovereign state</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Scotland" title="Demographics of Scotland">Demographics</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">Uninhabited since 1800</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lymphad"><img alt="Lymphad" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lymphad3.svg/40px-Lymphad3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lymphad3.svg/60px-Lymphad3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="177" data-file-height="174" /></span></span></th></tr><tr style="font-size:88%"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">References</th><td class="infobox-data"><sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MacT_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MacT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Staffa</b> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Gaelic language">Scottish Gaelic</a>: <i lang="gd">Stafa</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-MacT_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MacT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="gd-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic">[ˈs̪t̪afa]</a></span>, from the <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> for stave or pillar island) is an island of the <a href="/wiki/Inner_Hebrides" title="Inner Hebrides">Inner Hebrides</a> in <a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute" title="Argyll and Bute">Argyll and Bute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a> gave it this name as its columnar <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basalt</a> reminded them of their houses, which were built from vertically placed tree-logs.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Staffa lies about 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Mull" title="Isle of Mull">Isle of Mull</a>; its area is 33 hectares (82 acres)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the highest point is 42 metres (138 feet) above <a href="/wiki/Sea_level" title="Sea level">sea level</a>. </p><p>The island came to prominence in the late 18th century after a visit by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Joseph_Banks" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Joseph Banks">Sir Joseph Banks</a>. He and his fellow-travellers extolled the natural beauty of the basalt columns in general and of the island's main sea cavern, which Banks renamed '<a href="/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave" title="Fingal's Cave">Fingal's Cave</a>'. Their visit was followed by those of many other prominent personalities throughout the next two centuries, including <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn" title="Felix Mendelssohn">Felix Mendelssohn</a>. The latter's <i><a href="/wiki/Hebrides_Overture" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrides Overture">Hebrides Overture</a></i> brought further fame to the island, which was by then uninhabited. It is now in the care of the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Scotland" title="National Trust for Scotland">National Trust for Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Keay_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geology_and_pre-history">Geology and pre-history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geology and pre-history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In prehistoric times (<a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a>) Staffa was covered by the ice sheets which spread from Scotland out into the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> beyond the <a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Outer Hebrides</a>. After the last retreat of the ice around 20,000 years ago, sea levels were up to 125 metres (410 ft) lower than at present. Although the <a href="/wiki/Isostasy" title="Isostasy">isostatic</a> rise of land makes estimating post-glacial coastlines a complex task, around 14,000 years ago it is likely that Staffa was part of a larger island, just off the coast of mainland Scotland, which would have included what are now Mull, <a href="/wiki/Iona" title="Iona">Iona</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Treshnish_Isles" title="Treshnish Isles">Treshnish Isles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Steadily <a href="/wiki/Sea_level_rise" title="Sea level rise">rising sea levels</a> then further isolated this little island, which is entirely of <a href="/wiki/Volcanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Volcanic">volcanic</a> origin. It consists of a basement of <a href="/wiki/Tuff" title="Tuff">tuff</a>, underneath colonnades of a black fine-grained <a href="/wiki/Tertiary" title="Tertiary">Tertiary</a> <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basalt</a>, overlying which is a third layer of basaltic lava without a crystalline structure. By contrast, slow cooling of the second layer of basalt resulted in an extraordinary pattern of predominantly hexagonal columns which form the faces and walls of the principal caves.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lava contracted towards each of a series of equally spaced centres as it cooled and solidified into prismatic columns, a process known as <a href="/wiki/Columnar_jointing" title="Columnar jointing">columnar jointing</a>. The columns typically have three to eight sides, six being most common. The columns are also divided horizontally by cross joints.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These columnar jointed sections represent the tops and bottoms of individual lava flows. Between these sections lie regions of much more chaotic jointing, known as the entablature. The origin of the entablature is unknown, but could be due to flooding of the lava flow, causing much more rapid cooling, or the interaction of stress fields from the two regions of columnar jointing as they approach one another.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similar formations are found at the <a href="/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway" title="Giant's Causeway">Giant's Causeway</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/Ulva" title="Ulva">Ulva</a> and at Ardmeanach on the Isle of Mull.<sup id="cite_ref-Keay_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grooves in the roof of MacKinnon's cave indicate either a pyroclastic flow or a series of eroded ash falls in the rock above the columnar basalt.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 'Staffa Group' is the name given to the series of <a href="/wiki/Olivine" title="Olivine">olivine</a> <a href="/wiki/Tholeiite_basalt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tholeiite basalt">tholeiite basalts</a> found in the vicinity of Mull which erupted 55–58 million years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg/250px-Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="56" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg/330px-Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg/500px-Isle_of_Staffa_Panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="14384" data-file-height="3649" /></a><figcaption>Isle of Staffa Panorama</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Am_Buchaille.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Am_Buchaille.jpg/220px-Am_Buchaille.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Am_Buchaille.jpg/330px-Am_Buchaille.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Am_Buchaille.jpg/440px-Am_Buchaille.jpg 2x" data-file-width="9639" data-file-height="3924" /></a><figcaption>Am Buchaille</figcaption></figure> <p>Staffa lies about 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Mull, and 9 km northeast of Iona. It is longitudinally oriented north–south, and is a kilometre long by about half a kilometre wide. The circumference is about 3.8 km in extent. In the northeast the isle shelves to a shore, but otherwise the coast is rugged and much indented; numerous caves have been carved out by rain, streams and sea. There is enough grass to feed a few cattle, and the island has a spring. </p><p>On the east coast are Goat Cave and Clamshell Cave. The latter is 10 m high, about 6 m wide at the entrance, and some 45 m long, and on one side of it the ridges of basalt stand out like the ribs of a ship. Near this cave is the pyramidal rock islet of <i>Am Buachaille</i> ('The Herdsman'), a pile of basalt columns seen fully only at low tide. Other outlying rocks include Eilean Dubh to the north-west and a series of skerries stretching for half a kilometre to the south-west. On the southwest shore are Boat Cave and Mackinnon's Cave (named after a 15th-century abbot of Iona), which has a tunnel connecting it to Cormorant Cave. These caves lie to the south-west and can be accessed from the bay of Port an Fhasgaidh at low tide. In 1945 a mine exploded near Boat Cave, causing damage to the cliff face which is still visible.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mackinnon's Cave is 107 metres long. </p><p>Staffa's most famous feature is <a href="/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave" title="Fingal's Cave">Fingal's Cave</a>, a large <a href="/wiki/Sea_cave" title="Sea cave">sea cave</a> located near the southern tip of the island some 20 m high and 75 m long formed in cliffs of hexagonal <a href="/wiki/Basalt" title="Basalt">basalt</a> columns. This cliff face is called the Colonnade or The Great Face and it was these cliffs and their caves that inspired Felix Mendelssohn's <i>Die Hebriden</i> (English: Hebrides Overture opus 26),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was premiered in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> in 1832.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original Gaelic name for Fingal's Cave is <i>An Uamh Bhin</i> – "the melodious cave" – but it was subsequently renamed after the 3rd-century Irish warrior <a href="/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill" title="Fionn mac Cumhaill">Fionn MacCool</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mendelssohn was nonetheless inspired by the sound of the waves in the cave and waxed lyrical about his visit, claiming that he arrived in Scotland "with a rake for folk-songs, an ear for the lovely, fragrant countryside, and a heart for the bare legs of the natives."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fingal%27s_Cave,_Staffa_(18thC).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG/220px-Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG/330px-Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG/440px-Fingal%27s_Cave%2C_Staffa_%2818thC%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2529" data-file-height="1876" /></a><figcaption>Engraving based on sketches made of Fingal's Cave by <a href="/wiki/John_Cleveley_the_Younger" title="John Cleveley the Younger">John Cleveley Jnr.</a> published in 1772<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Little is known of the early history of Staffa, although the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> town of <a href="/wiki/St%C3%A4fa" title="Stäfa">Stäfa</a> on <a href="/wiki/Lake_Zurich" title="Lake Zurich">Lake Zurich</a> was named after the island by a monk from nearby <a href="/wiki/Iona" title="Iona">Iona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Part of the <a href="/wiki/Ulva" title="Ulva">Ulva</a> estate of the <a href="/wiki/Clan_MacQuarrie" title="Clan MacQuarrie">MacQuarries</a> from an early date until 1777,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was brought to the English-speaking world's attention after a visit by Sir <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Banks" title="Joseph Banks">Joseph Banks</a> in August 1772. <i>En route</i> to <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> in the company of the painter <a href="/wiki/Johann_Zoffany" class="mw-redirect" title="Johann Zoffany">Johann Zoffany</a>, the Bishop of <a href="/wiki/Link%C3%B6ping" title="Linköping">Linköping</a>, and the Swedish naturalist <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Solander" title="Daniel Solander">Daniel Solander</a>, Banks (later a president of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>) was entertained by Maclean of Drummen, on the <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Mull" title="Isle of Mull">Isle of Mull</a>. Hearing about Staffa he resolved to visit and set out from <a href="/wiki/Tobermory,_Mull" title="Tobermory, Mull">Tobermory</a> the next day. The winds were light and they did not arrive until darkness had fallen.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Banks wrote: </p> <blockquote> <p>It was too dark to see anything, so we carried our tent and baggage near the only house on the island, and began to cook our suppers, in order to be prepared for the earliest dawn, and to enjoy that which, from the conversation of the gentlemen we had, now raised the highest expectations of.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>They were not disappointed. Despite becoming infested with lice during his short stay on the island, he provided glowing reports of his visit.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He confessed that he was: </p> <blockquote> <p>forced to acknowledge that this piece of architecture, formed by nature, far surpasses that of the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>, that of <a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="St. Peter's Basilica">St. Peter</a> at Rome, all that remains of <a href="/wiki/Palmyra" title="Palmyra">Palmyra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paestum" title="Paestum">Paestum</a>, and all that the genius, the taste and the luxury of the Greeks were capable of inventing.<sup id="cite_ref-Keay_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a> and his protege <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a> visited <a href="/wiki/Clan_MacQuarrie" title="Clan MacQuarrie">clan MacQuarrie</a> on Ulva in 1773, the year after Banks' visit. Perhaps aware that Banks considered that the columnar basalt cliff formations on Ulva called "The Castles" rivalled Staffa's<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Johnson wrote: </p> <blockquote> <p>When the islanders were reproached with their ignorance or insensibility of the wonders of Staffa, they had not much to reply. They had indeed considered it little, because they had always seen it; and none but philosophers, nor they always, are struck with wonder otherwise than by novelty.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg/250px-Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg/330px-Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg/500px-Scotia_Depicta_-_Fingal%27s_Cave_-Plate-.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1748" /></a><figcaption>Engraving of Fingal's Cave by <a href="/wiki/James_Fittler" title="James Fittler">James Fittler</a> in Scotia Depicta, 1804</figcaption></figure> <p>Amongst the first<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eminent overseas visitors to Staffa were <a href="/wiki/Barth%C3%A9lemy_Faujas_de_Saint-Fond" title="Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond">Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond</a>, a wealthy French zoologist and mineralogist and the American architect and naturalist <a href="/wiki/William_Thornton" title="William Thornton">William Thornton</a>. Visiting in 1784, they were suitably impressed, Faujus writing: "this superb monument of nature, which in regard to its form bears so strong a resemblance to a work of art, though art can certainly claim no share in it."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_and_20th_centuries">19th and 20th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 19th and 20th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Subsequently, a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Adam" title="Robert Adam">Robert Adam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sir_Walter_Scott" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Walter Scott">Sir Walter Scott</a> (1810), <a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a> (1818), <a href="/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" title="J. M. W. Turner">J. M. W. Turner</a>, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, <a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a> (1833), <a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a> (1839), <a href="/wiki/Alice_Liddell" title="Alice Liddell">Alice Liddell</a> (the inspiration for <a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" title="Alice's Adventures in Wonderland">Alice in Wonderland</a>) in 1878, <a href="/wiki/David_Livingstone" title="David Livingstone">David Livingstone</a> (1864), <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a> (1870) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.<sup id="cite_ref-Keay_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wordsworth, however, found the volume of tourism disappointing. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boat_Cave.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Boat_Cave.JPG/280px-Boat_Cave.JPG" decoding="async" width="280" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Boat_Cave.JPG/420px-Boat_Cave.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Boat_Cave.JPG/560px-Boat_Cave.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Boat Cave</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>We saw, but surely in the motley crowd </p> <dl><dd>Not one of us has felt, the far-famed sight:</dd> <dd>How could we feel it? Each the others blight,</dd> <dd>Hurried and hurrying volatile and loud.</dd></dl> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/William_Wordsworth" title="William Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a>, Cave of Staffa. Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833. No 28.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Writing more than a century later the writer <a href="/wiki/W._H._Murray" title="W. H. Murray">W. H. Murray</a> agreed, complaining that the visitors spoiled the "character and atmosphere", and suggesting that "to know Staffa one must go alone".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Others were more enthusiastic, despite the presence of numerous others. <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert, Prince Consort">Prince Albert</a> were rowed into the cave in the royal barge in 1847,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Times</i> correspondent recorded: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>As the Royal Squadron cleared out of the Sound of Mull, and round the northern extremity of the island, a noble prospect lay before it, the steep and barren headlands of <a href="/wiki/Ardnamurchan" title="Ardnamurchan">Ardnamurchan</a> stretching away into the Atlantic on the right, on the left the precipitous cliffs of the Mull coast, and far away and embosomed in the ocean, the fantastic and varied forms of the adjacent islands. The horizon toward the north was a good deal obscured by haze, but, notwithstanding, <a href="/wiki/Skye" class="mw-redirect" title="Skye">Skye</a> was distinctly visible... The deserted and solitary aspect of the island was brought out with a strange and startling effect by the presence of so many steamers; and as Her Majesty's barge with the Royal Standard floated into the cave, the crew dipping their oars with the greatest precision, nothing could be more animated and grand than the appearance which the vast basaltic entrance, so solemn in its proportions, presented.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg/220px-Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg/330px-Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg/440px-Scotland-Staffa-Fingals-Cave-1900.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3553" data-file-height="2626" /></a><figcaption>Fingal's Cave around 1900</figcaption></figure> <p>Keats complained about the expense of the ferry, but was captivated by what he saw nonetheless. Displeased with his first efforts to describe this "cathedral of the sea" he finally settled on: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p>Not Aladdin magian/Ever such a work began, Not the wizard of the Dee, Ever such a dream could see; Not St John, in Patmos Isle, In the passion of his toil, When he saw the churches seven, Golden Aisl'd, built up in heaven, Gazed at such a rugged wonder. </p><p> --<a href="/wiki/John_Keats" title="John Keats">John Keats</a>, Staffa<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenants_and_owners">Tenants and owners</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Tenants and owners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa_beside_14624.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Staffa_beside_14624.JPG/220px-Staffa_beside_14624.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Staffa_beside_14624.JPG/330px-Staffa_beside_14624.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Staffa_beside_14624.JPG/440px-Staffa_beside_14624.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Basalt columns on Am Buchaille</figcaption></figure> <p>However inspiring the scenery, it was not an easy place in which to live. In 1772 there was only a single family, living on a diet of barley, oats, and potatoes, and whatever their grazing animals could provide, and growing flax.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the 18th century they had deserted Staffa, apparently terrified by the severity of winter storms.<sup id="cite_ref-Keay_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Signs of "<a href="/wiki/Ridge_and_furrow" title="Ridge and furrow">rig and furrow</a>" agriculture can still be seen on the island but the only surviving building is the ruin of a 19th-century shelter for travellers.<sup id="cite_ref-snh_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snh-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1800 the island was under the ownership of Colin MacDonald of <a href="/wiki/Lochboisdale" title="Lochboisdale">Lochboisdale</a>. In 1816 his son Ranald MacDonald sold Staffa into the care of <a href="/wiki/Land_trust" title="Land trust">trustees</a>. In 1821 these trustees sold the island to Alexander Forman as trustee, the purchase money being paid by his brother John Forman <a href="/wiki/Writer_to_the_Signet" class="mw-redirect" title="Writer to the Signet">WS</a>. It remained in the Forman family until sold by Bernard Gilpin Vincent "Pat" Forman in 1968. There were several private owners after that, including Alastair de Watteville, a descendant of Colin MacDonald<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who wrote a book about the island,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until finally Jock Elliott Jr. of New York gifted it to the National Trust for Scotland in 1986 to honour the 60th birthday of his wife, Eleanor. A grateful National Trust bestowed upon her the honorific "Steward of Staffa".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2005 <a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">poll</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Radio_Times" title="Radio Times">Radio Times</a></i> readers, Staffa was named as the eighth-greatest natural wonder in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 20th century there were issues of <a href="/wiki/Philatelic_fakes_and_forgeries" title="Philatelic fakes and forgeries">bogus postage stamps</a> bearing Staffa's name.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nature_and_conservation">Nature and conservation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Nature and conservation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Staffa National Nature Reserve</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size: 100%;"><div style="background-color: #CDE5B2;"><a href="/wiki/IUCN_protected_area_categories" title="IUCN protected area categories">IUCN category</a> II (<a href="/wiki/National_park" title="National park">national park</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-planet_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planet-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Sea cliffs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Staffa01.jpg/284px-Staffa01.jpg" decoding="async" width="284" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Staffa01.jpg/426px-Staffa01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Staffa01.jpg/568px-Staffa01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="662" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Sea cliffs</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="14" data-overlays="["_721112ae7c9da1b46dc2fb96dd9dc324f7139a20"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,14,a,a,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Staffa&revid=1270026840&groups=_721112ae7c9da1b46dc2fb96dd9dc324f7139a20" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,14,a,a,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Staffa&revid=1270026840&groups=_721112ae7c9da1b46dc2fb96dd9dc324f7139a20 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr class="locality"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute" title="Argyll and Bute">Argyll and Bute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">30.7 ha (76 acres)<sup id="cite_ref-nnr_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nnr-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NatureScot" title="NatureScot">NatureScot</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">2001<sup id="cite_ref-planet_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planet-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Scotland" title="National Trust for Scotland">National Trust for Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/staffa">Staffa National Nature Reserve</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In 1800 there were three <a href="/wiki/Red_deer" title="Red deer">red deer</a> on the island, later replaced by goats and then by a small herd of black cattle.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, the summer grazing was used for sheep by <a href="/wiki/Crofter" class="mw-redirect" title="Crofter">crofters</a> from Iona, but in 1997 all livestock was removed. This has led to a regeneration of the island's vegetation.<sup id="cite_ref-snh_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snh-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The island supports a diverse range of plants, with species such as <a href="/wiki/Common_heather" class="mw-redirect" title="Common heather">common heather</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidney_vetch" class="mw-redirect" title="Kidney vetch">kidney vetch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lotus_corniculatus" title="Lotus corniculatus">common-bird's-foot trefoil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wild_thyme" class="mw-redirect" title="Wild thyme">wild thyme</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tormentil" class="mw-redirect" title="Tormentil">tormentil</a> all found. The clifftop grassland supports species such as <a href="/wiki/Red_fescue" class="mw-redirect" title="Red fescue">red fescue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_fog" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire fog">yorkshire fog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armeria_maritima" title="Armeria maritima">thrift</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sea_campion" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea campion">sea campion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sea_plantain" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea plantain">sea plantain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ribwort_plantain" class="mw-redirect" title="Ribwort plantain">ribwort plantain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-manage_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manage-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Staffa is nationally important for breeding <a href="/wiki/Fulmar" title="Fulmar">fulmars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_shag" class="mw-redirect" title="Common shag">common shags</a> and <a href="/wiki/Puffin" title="Puffin">puffins</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-manage_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manage-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Great_skua" title="Great skua">great skuas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gull" title="Gull">gulls</a> also nest on the island. The surrounding waters provide a livelihood for numerous seabirds, <a href="/wiki/Grey_seal" title="Grey seal">grey seals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dolphin" title="Dolphin">dolphins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basking_shark" title="Basking shark">basking sharks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minke_whale" title="Minke whale">minke</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pilot_whale" title="Pilot whale">pilot whales</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-snh_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snh-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The island has been designated as a <a href="/wiki/National_nature_reserve_(Scotland)" title="National nature reserve (Scotland)">national nature reserve</a> since 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The national nature reserve is classified as a <a href="/wiki/IUCN_protected_area_categories" title="IUCN protected area categories">Category II</a> <a href="/wiki/Protected_area" title="Protected area">protected area</a> by the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature" title="International Union for Conservation of Nature">International Union for Conservation of Nature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-planet_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-planet-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Staffa is also a <a href="/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest" title="Site of Special Scientific Interest">Site of Special Scientific Interest</a> (SSSI),<sup id="cite_ref-sssi_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sssi-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> whilst the seas surrounding the island are designated as a <a href="/wiki/Special_Area_of_Conservation" title="Special Area of Conservation">Special Area of Conservation</a> (SAC) due to the presence of <a href="/wiki/Harbour_porpoise" title="Harbour porpoise">harbour porpoises</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sac_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sac-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Staffa is part of the <a href="/wiki/Loch_Na_Keal" class="mw-redirect" title="Loch Na Keal">Loch Na Keal</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Scenic_Area_(Scotland)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Scenic Area (Scotland)">National Scenic Area</a>, one of 40 in Scotland.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Visiting_Staffa">Visiting Staffa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Visiting Staffa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Boat trips from Tiree, Tobermory, <a href="/wiki/Oban" title="Oban">Oban</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ulva_Ferry" title="Ulva Ferry">Ulva Ferry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fionnphort" title="Fionnphort">Fionnphort</a> on Mull, and Iona allow visitors to view the caves and the puffins that nest on the island between May and September.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a landing place used by the tourist boats just north of Am Buachaille, but disembarkation is only possible in calm conditions. The island lacks a genuine anchorage.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To avoid disturbing the ground-nesting birds, the National Trust for Scotland asks people not to bring dogs to Staffa between 1 April and 30 September.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa_top_14693k.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Staffa_top_14693k.jpg/220px-Staffa_top_14693k.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Staffa_top_14693k.jpg/330px-Staffa_top_14693k.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Staffa_top_14693k.jpg/440px-Staffa_top_14693k.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Above The Colonnade</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg/220px-Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg/330px-Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg/440px-Staffa_harbour_14705k.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>The landing place</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa_NE_14673.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Staffa_NE_14673.JPG/220px-Staffa_NE_14673.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Staffa_NE_14673.JPG/330px-Staffa_NE_14673.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Staffa_NE_14673.JPG/440px-Staffa_NE_14673.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>View looking northeast to Ulva</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staffa04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Staffa04.jpg/220px-Staffa04.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Staffa04.jpg/330px-Staffa04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Staffa04.jpg/440px-Staffa04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Basalt columns inside Fingal's Cave</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave" title="Fingal's Cave">Fingal's Cave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrides_Overture" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrides Overture">Hebrides Overture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clan_MacQuarrie" title="Clan MacQuarrie">Clan MacQuarrie</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Staffa&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist 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href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith_2-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 124–27</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 First Series (1976) Sheet 48</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MacT-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MacT_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MacT_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.scot/gd/visitandlearn/40900.aspx"><i>Ainmean-àite/Placenames</i></a>. (pdf) <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Pàrlamaid na h-Alba</a>. Retrieved 26 August 2012. </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/faclair/sbg/lorg.php?facal=Staffa&seorsa=Beurla&tairg=Lorg&eis_saor=on">"Staffa"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Sabhal_M%C3%B2r_Ostaig" title="Sabhal Mòr Ostaig">Sabhal Mòr Ostaig</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Sabhal+M%C3%B2r+Ostaig&rft.atitle=Staffa&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smo.uhi.ac.uk%2Fgaidhlig%2Ffaclair%2Fsbg%2Florg.php%3Ffacal%3DStaffa%26seorsa%3DBeurla%26tairg%3DLorg%26eis_saor%3Don&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AStaffa" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murray (1973) p. 44</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This is Haswell-Smith's estimate. Keay (1994) states 28 hectares (69 acres).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Keay-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Keay_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Keay_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Keay_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Keay_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Keay_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Keay & Keay (1994) p. 894</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murray (1973) p. 69</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitchell, Colin and Mitchell, Patrick (2005) <i>Landform and Terrain: The Physical Geography of Landscape</i> Brailsford Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-904623-56-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-904623-56-5">1-904623-56-5</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brailsfordpress.com/chapters%201-3.pdf">3.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080407142126/http://www.brailsfordpress.com/chapters%201-3.pdf">Archived</a> 7 April 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Phillips et al. (2013) <i>The formation of columnar joints produced by cooling in basalt at Staffa, Scotland</i> Bulletin of Volcanology 75:715</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/arb/gsg/news/128.html">"To Staffa with Ladder"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080319123058/http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/arb/gsg/news/128.html">Archived</a> 19 March 2008 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (September 2006) <i>Grampian Speleological Group Newsletter</i> Number 128. Retrieved 9 September 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bell, B.R. and Jolley, D.W. (1997) <i>Application of palynological data to the chronology of the Palaeogene lava fields of the British Province: implications for magmatic stratigraphy</i>. Journal of the Geological Society. London. Vol. 154, pp. 701–708.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060519021259/http://www.galvestonsymphony.org/composers/Mendelssohn_FingalsCave.html">FINGAL'S CAVE, OPUS 26</a>, Program Notes by Rita Junker Pickar, 2002, Retrieved 21 October 2010.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/mendelssohn/hebridesOv.html">Program Notes: Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture by Geoff Kuenning</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070914101640/http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/mendelssohn/hebridesOv.html">Archived</a> 14 September 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> ucla.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Keay & Keay (1994) state that the re-naming was done by Banks, although showcaves.com states that Mendelssohn is blamed for the "misnaming".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bray (1996) p. 92 notes that <a href="/wiki/James_Macpherson" title="James Macpherson">James Macpherson</a>'s <i>Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem</i> was a "runaway bestseller" in many European countries at the time, and that Banks may later have regretted his choice when it became clear that Macpherson's claims to have translated the work from an ancient Gaelic manuscript proved to be bogus.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The New Encyclopædia Britannica</i> (1978) Chicago. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cleveley accompanied Thomas Pennant on his voyage to the Hebrides in 1772.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 124</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bray (1996) pp. 89–90</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bray (1996) p. 89 suggests that Banks' companion was a Bishop of Iceland, but this seems unlikely as Cooper (1979) provides him with a name and a bishopric - see note below.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pennant, Thomas (1772) <i>A Tour of Scotland and a Voyage to the Hebrides</i>. London. Benjamin White. Quoted in Bray (1996) p. 90.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">However, Cooper (1979) p. 26 is unequivocal in stating that this "hyperbole" was penned by The Bishop of Linköping, Uno von Troil, who accompanied Banks.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacNab, Peter (1993) <i>Mull and Iona: Highways and Byways</i>. Edinburgh. Luath Press. pp. 72–73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Johnson, Samuel (1775) <i>A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland</i>. London. Chapman & Dodd. (1924 edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In fact Cooper (1979) p 16 states that Faujus was the first such person to be attracted to the Hebrides, but then later (p 26) refers to a prior visit by Uno von Troil in the company of Banks. Perhaps he did not consider Swedish bishops to be sufficiently important to merit this accolade.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Faujus de Saint Frond, B. <i>A Journey through England and Wales to the Hebrides in 1784</i>, edited by Sir Archibald Geikie (1907) and quoted in Cooper (1979) p. 17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1979) pp. 52–54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww832.html">"Poems Composed or Suggested During A Tour In The Summer Of 1833 XXVIII. Cave Of Staffa"</a> Bartleby.com. Retrieved 3 May 2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Murray, W.H. (1966) <i>The Hebrides</i>. London. Heinemann. p. 109</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1979) p. 100</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Keay & Keay (1994) state 1836, which is unlikely.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Times</i> correspondent writing in the <i>Illustrated London News</i> (1847), quoted in Bray (1996) p. 244</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper (1979) p. 53</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bray (1996) p. 88, suggests that both Keats's and Wordsworth's attempts are "rather poor verse".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-snh-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-snh_37-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-snh_37-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-snh_37-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/designatedareas/nnrs/staffa/staffa.asp">"Staffa"</a> Scottish Natural Heritage. Retrieved 10 December 2006.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">de Watteville, Alastair (1993) <i>The Island of Staffa: Its Astonishing Rock Formations Include World-renowned Fingal's Cave</i>. Romsey Fine Art.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Obituaries: Eleanor Elliott (8 December 2006) <i>The Scotsman</i> newspaper. 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colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Orkney" title="Prehistoric Orkney">Prehistoric Orkney</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Neolithic_Orkney" title="Heart of Neolithic Orkney">Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site</a>:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maeshowe" title="Maeshowe">Maeshowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ness_of_Brodgar" title="Ness of Brodgar">Ness of Brodgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_of_Brodgar" title="Ring of Brodgar">Ring of Brodgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skara_Brae" title="Skara Brae">Skara Brae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standing_Stones_of_Stenness" title="Standing Stones of Stenness">Standing Stones of Stenness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Shetland" title="Prehistoric Shetland">Prehistoric Shetland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zenith_of_Iron_Age_Shetland" title="Zenith of Iron Age Shetland">Zenith of Iron Age Shetland</a>:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broch_of_Mousa" title="Broch of Mousa">Broch of Mousa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarlshof" title="Jarlshof">Jarlshof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Scatness" title="Old Scatness">Old Scatness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prehistoric Western Isles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Callanish_Stones" title="Callanish Stones">Callanish Stones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dun_Carloway" title="Dun Carloway">Dun Carloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rubha_an_D%C3%B9nain" title="Rubha an Dùnain">Rubha an Dùnain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dun_Nosebridge" title="Dun Nosebridge">Dun Nosebridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="History51" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">History</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata" title="Dál Riata">Dál Riata</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columba" title="Columba">Columba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinba" title="Hinba">Hinba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Isles" title="Kingdom of the Isles">Kingdom of the Isles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_Scotland" title="Scandinavian Scotland">Scandinavian Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rulers_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Isles" class="mw-redirect" title="Rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles">Rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_the_Isles" title="Bishop of the Isles">Bishop of the Isles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Isles" title="Lord of the Isles">Lordship of the Isles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Perth" title="Treaty of Perth">Treaty of Perth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Westminster_(1462)" title="Treaty of Westminster (1462)">Treaty of Ardtornish-Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finlaggan" title="Finlaggan">Finlaggan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Orkney" title="Earl of Orkney">Earldom of Orkney</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buckquoy_spindle-whorl" title="Buckquoy spindle-whorl">Buckquoy spindle-whorl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udal_law" title="Udal law">Udal law</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th and 19th Century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Clearances" title="Highland Clearances">Clearances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacobite_risings" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacobite risings">Jacobite risings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_MacDonald" title="Flora MacDonald">Flora MacDonald</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Orkneyinga_saga" title="Orkneyinga saga">Orkneyinga Saga</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Description_of_the_Western_Isles_of_Scotland" title="Description of the Western Isles of Scotland">Description of the Western Isles of Scotland</a></i> (Monro)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Martin_Martin" title="Martin Martin">A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland</a></i> (Martin)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland" title="A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland">A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland</a></i> (Johnson)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Journal_of_a_Tour_to_the_Hebrides" title="The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides">The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides</a></i> (Boswell)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Etymology51" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Etymology</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_island_names" title="Scottish island names">Scottish island names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Isles#Island_names" title="Northern Isles">Northern Isles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrides#Etymology" title="Hebrides">Hebrides</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ainmean-%C3%80ite_na_h-Alba" title="Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba">Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Arran#Etymology" title="Isle of Arran">Arran</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirkwall" title="Kirkwall">Kirkwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lerwick" title="Lerwick">Lerwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rothesay" title="Rothesay">Rothesay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stornoway" title="Stornoway">Stornoway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stromness" title="Stromness">Stromness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Agencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Community_Energy_Scotland" title="Community Energy Scotland">Community Energy Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crofters_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Crofters Commission">Crofters Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highlands_and_Islands_Enterprise" title="Highlands and Islands Enterprise">Highlands and Islands Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Islands_Federation" title="Scottish Islands Federation">Scottish Islands Federation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Sea_oil" title="North Sea oil">Oil industry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flotta" title="Flotta">Flotta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullom_Voe" title="Sullom Voe">Sullom Voe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Culture51" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Culture</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Shetland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aly_Bain" title="Aly Bain">Aly Bain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fraser_(singer)" title="Thomas Fraser (singer)">Thomas Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peerie_Willie_Johnson" title="Peerie Willie Johnson">Peerie Willie Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland_Amenity_Trust" title="Shetland Amenity Trust">Shetland Amenity Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up_Helly_Aa" title="Up Helly Aa">Up Helly Aa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vagaland" title="Vagaland">Vagaland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orkney</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Mackay_Brown" title="George Mackay Brown">George Mackay Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies" title="Peter Maxwell Davies">Peter Maxwell Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._Marian_McNeill" title="F. Marian McNeill">F. Marian McNeill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkwall_Ba_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirkwall Ba game">Kirkwall Ba game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Heritage_Society" title="Orkney Heritage Society">Orkney Heritage Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Magnus_Festival" title="St Magnus Festival">St Magnus Festival</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Outer Hebrides</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie" title="Compton Mackenzie">Compton Mackenzie</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A8is_Bharraigh" title="Fèis Bharraigh">Fèis Bharraigh</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Church_of_Scotland_(since_1900)" title="Free Church of Scotland (since 1900)">Free Church of Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iain_Crichton_Smith" title="Iain Crichton Smith">Iain Crichton Smith</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inner Hebrides</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islay_whisky" class="mw-redirect" title="Islay whisky">Islay whisky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runrig" title="Runrig">Runrig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorley_MacLean" title="Sorley MacLean">Sorley MacLean</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/West_Highland_Free_Press" title="West Highland Free Press">West Highland Free Press</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Politics51" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Politics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Local_authorities17" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Local authorities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shetland_Islands_Council" title="Shetland Islands Council">Shetland Islands Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands_Council" title="Orkney Islands Council">Orkney Islands Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comhairle_nan_Eilean_Siar" title="Comhairle nan Eilean Siar">Comhairle nan Eilean Siar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Council" title="Highland Council">Highland Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute" title="Argyll and Bute">Argyll and Bute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire" title="North 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