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Iona (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ n ə /; Scottish Gaelic: Ì Chaluim Chille [ˈiː ˈxal̪ˠɪm ˈçiʎə] ⓘ, sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.
Cracked granite boulder on Fionnphort beach. The beach at Fionnphort has a distinctive split granite boulder in the centre that is classed as an erratic and deposited here by an ice age glacier. [2] The beach has a car park and a nearby cemetery. From Fionnphort, the entire east side of Iona can be seen, including Iona Abbey.
The Bay at the Back of the Ocean (Scottish Gaelic: Camas Cuil an t-Saimh) is a wide, west facing bay on the island of Iona, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and is so named because the next westward stop is North America. Behind the beach is the machair, a wide grassed area that houses communal sheep grazing for the island, and the local golf course ...
A beach on Oronsay by Colonsay, looking towards the Paps of Jura in the distance St Ninian's Isle and tombolo. There are a large number of small tidal islands in Scotland. The more notable ones include: Baleshare; Bernera; Calve Island; Castle Island; Corn Holm; Cramond Island; Island Davaar; Dunnicaer; Eilean Mhic Chrion; Eilean Shona; Eriska ...
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about 50 miles (80 kilometres) to the northeast of Orkney, 110 mi (170 km) from mainland Scotland and 140 mi (220 km) west of Norway.
Iona Abbey is an abbey located on the island of Iona, just off the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland. It is one of the oldest Christian religious centres in Western Europe. The abbey was a focal point for the spread of Christianity throughout Scotland and marks the foundation of a monastic community by St. Columba , when Iona was part ...
Map of Tiree (bottom, southwest) and Coll (top, northeast), 1899. Tiree is known for the 1st-century-AD Dùn Mòr broch, for the prehistoric carved Ringing Stone and for the birds of the Ceann a' Mhara headland. Adomnán, abbot of Iona Abbey 679–704, recorded several stories relating to St Columba and the island of Tiree.
Eilean Munde is a uninhabited [1] island in Loch Leven, close to Ballachulish.. It is the site of a chapel built by St. Fintan Mundus (also known as Saint Fintan Munnu), who travelled here from Iona in the 7th century.