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The Scottish plant collector, Clara Winsome Muirhead surveyed the plant life of the islands and published The Flora of Easdale and the Garvellachs in 1962. Garbh Eileach is the largest island in the group and extends to 142 ha (351 acres) and reaches a maximum elevation of 110 m (361 ft) above sea level. [8]
Frisland was shown as a roughly rectangular island, with three triangular promontories on its western coast. In some mappings, it is identified as "Fixland". [4] (Matteo Prunes map of 1553, from Library of Congress, see upper right of map; see also, [5] page 88 for other clearer source; see also Catalan map of 1480 showing "Fixland"; [6] original source map copied in this article, page 64.
A Nāga couple, featured as a Hoysala relief.. In South Asian and Southeast Asian mythology, the Nāga are semi-divine creatures which are half-human and half-snakes. [1]Claims of sightings of reptilian creatures occur in Southern United States, where swamps are common.
The Furneaux Group is a group of approximately 100 islands located at the eastern end of Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania, Australia.The islands were named after British navigator Tobias Furneaux, who sighted the eastern side of these islands after leaving Adventure Bay in 1773 on his way to New Zealand to rejoin Captain James Cook. [1]
Map of Skomer. Skomer (Welsh: Ynys Sgomer) or Skomer Island [1] is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, in the community of Marloes and St Brides [2] [3] in west Wales. It is well known for its wildlife: around half the world's population of Manx shearwaters nest on the island, the Atlantic puffin colony is the largest in southern Britain, and the Skomer vole (a subspecies of the bank ...
A shaman in front of Shaman Rock, a Buryat. Olkhon Island. Shaman Rock, Cape Burhan, or Shamanka is a rock, on Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Russia. It is in Pribaikalsky National Park, and is near Khuzhir, the largest city on Olkhon Island. The rock connects to Olkhon Island, though depending on perspective, can appear an island.
The Shiant Islands are at centre between the much larger islands of Lewis and Harris to the west and northern Isle of Skye, to the south. The Shiant Islands [ 1 ] ( / ʃ æ n t / ; Scottish Gaelic : Na h-Eileanan Mòra [nə ˈhelanən ˈmoːɾə] or Na h-Eileanan Seunta [nə ˈhelanən ˈʃiant̪ə] ⓘ ) or Shiant Isles are a privately owned ...
From a European perspective, the Maug Islands were discovered in 1522 by Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa [], who named it Las Monjas (The Nuns in Spanish). Gómez de Espinosa was a member of Ferdinand Magellan's attempted circumnavigation of the globe, and after Magellan’s death unsuccessfully attempted to navigate the ship Trinidad across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico.