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Fairest Isle" is one of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo in their semi-opera King Arthur (1691), where it is sung by the goddess Venus in praise of the island of Britain as the home of Love.
Ailsa Craig (/ ˈ eɪ l s ə /; Scots: Ailsae Craig; Scottish Gaelic: Creag Ealasaid) is an island of 99 ha (240 acres) in the outer Firth of Clyde, 16 km (8 + 1 ⁄ 2 nmi) west of mainland Scotland, upon which microgranite has long been quarried to make curling stones.
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Located in Lake Superior, Isle Royale is the second largest island in the Great Lakes system, after only Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron. At 206.7 square miles (535 km 2), the island of Isle Royale itself is the third largest island in the contiguous United States (after Long Island and Padre Island) and is the fourth largest lake island in the ...
"Small Isles" is the name of the coterminous civil parish and former Church of Scotland parish, [5] originally created in 1726 from part of Sleat parish, the balance of which lies on the much larger island of Skye.
The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed [1] [2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.
The Holy Island or Holy Isle (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean MoLaise) is an island in the Firth of Clyde, off the west coast of central Scotland, inside Lamlash Bay on the larger Isle of Arran. The island is around 3 kilometres (1 + 7 ⁄ 8 mi) long and around 1 kilometre (5 ⁄ 8 mi) wide. Its highest point is the hill Mullach Mòr.
"Elizabeth Castle" from the west with the length of the ensemble of the castle buildings. Elizabeth Castle (Norman: Lé Châté Lîzabé) [1] [2] is a castle and tourist attraction, on a tidal island within the parish of Saint Helier, Jersey.