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Barra Head, Berneray. Barra Head, also known as Berneray (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh; Scots: Barra Heid), is the southernmost island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Within the Outer Hebrides, it forms part of the Barra Isles archipelago. Originally, Barra Head only referred to the southernmost headland of Berneray but is now a common name ...
Barra Head Lighthouse on Barra Head identifies the southern entrance to The Minch, roughly halfway between the Eilean Glas and Rinns of Islay lighthouses. The 58-foot (18-metre) stone tower, built in 1833, stands on the west side of the island, at the top of a very steep cliff, making the light the highest in the UK with a focal plane of 208 m (682 ft) above sea level.
Barra Head (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh; named after Barra Head in Scotland) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Richmond County on Cape Breton Island. Barra Head surrounds a small inlet called Salmon River , which was the old name for Barra Head being salmon river had to be changed because it was far too ...
Barra (/ ˈ b ær ə /; Scottish Gaelic: Barraigh or Eilean Bharraigh [ˈelan ˈvarˠaj] ⓘ; Scots: Barra) is an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and the second southernmost inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway. In 2011, the population was 1,174.
The name "Berneray" is from the Old Norse Bjarnar-øy and means either "Bjorn's island" or possibly "bear island". [3] This island is known by Gaelic speakers as Beàrnaraigh na Hearadh, meaning "Berneray of Harris" to distinguish it from Beàrnaraigh Cheann Bharraigh, literally "Berneray of Barra Head ", now usually known in English simply as Barra Head and Beàrnaraigh Leòdhais, known as ...
Barra Head is a rock trio from Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1992, the band has never changed its members. Founded in 1992, the band has never changed its members. Barra Head belong to the genres indie-rock , punk rock , post-hardcore and math rock .
The Sound of Barra is composed of 98.91% marine and inlet areas, 1.07% mudflats and other semi-submerged areas and 0.02% sea cliffs and islets. [2] There are ten islands in the sound, with only Eriskay still being inhabited:
The seamount lies in the southern Rockall Trough, [2] at the foot of the Scottish continental slope and 166 kilometres (103 mi) west-southwest of Barra Head, Hebrides. [1] It is the smallest of three seamounts in the Rockall Trough; [3] the other two are Anton Dohrn Seamount and Rosemary Bank both north of Hebrides Terrace Seamount, [4] and farther west is the Rockall Bank. [5]