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The Isle of Skye Music Festival featured sets from The Fun Lovin' Criminals and Sparks, but collapsed in 2007. [155] [156] Electronic musician Mylo was born on Skye. [157] Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye painted in 1874 by Sidney Richard Percy
Map of Skye showing Waternish Western shore of Loch Bay. Waternish or Vaternish (Scottish Gaelic: Bhàtairnis) [1] is a peninsula approximately 12 kilometres (7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) long on the island of Skye, Scotland, situated between Loch Dunvegan and Loch Snizort in the northwest of the island, [2] originally inhabited and owned by Clan MacNeacail/MacNicol/Nicolsons and originally consisting ...
Dunscaith Castle also known as Dun Scaich, Dun Sgathaich Castle and Tokavaig, is a ruined castle on the coast of the Isle of Skye, in the north-west of Scotland. It is located in the Parish of Sleat, in the Highland council area, and in the former county of Inverness-shire, at grid reference.
The Storr (Scottish Gaelic: An Stòr) [1] is a mountain on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The hill presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay , contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west.
Articles about the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ...
Tarskavaig (Tarsgabhaig [1] in Scottish Gaelic) is a crofting village on the west coast of Sleat on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It sits in a glen which meets Tarskavaig Bay and lies opposite the Isles of Eigg, Rum and Canna. It is often said that Tarskavaig has the best view of the Cuillin in Skye and is home to the oldest sheep in the world.
Skye's shape defies description: W. H. Murray wrote that "Skye is sixty miles [100 km] long, but what might be its breadth is beyond the ingenuity of man to state". [1] Malcolm Slesser suggested that its shape "sticks out of the west coast of northern Scotland like a lobster's claw ready to snap at the fish bone of Harris and Lewis", [ 2 ...
The geology of the Isle of Skye in Scotland is highly varied and the island's landscape reflects changes in the underlying nature of the rocks. A wide range of rock types are exposed on the island, sedimentary , metamorphic and igneous , ranging in age from the Archaean through to the Quaternary .