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West Dunbartonshire
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West Dunbartonshire is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the west of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgows commuter towns and villages, West Dunbartonshire also borders onto Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and Stirling. The area was formed on 1 April 1996 from part of the former Strathclyde Region, namely the entire district of Clydebank, act 1994 that created the council area its name was Dumbarton and Clydebank. The council, elected as an authority in 1995, resolved to change the name of the area to West Dunbartonshire. The area is composed of three parts, the towns of Clydebank, Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven district. West Dunbartonshire is administered from Dumbarton, although Clydebank is the largest town, the council is run by 22 councillors elected from 6 wards. On 18 September 2014, West Dunbartonshire was one of four areas which had a majority Yes vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum at 54% with a 87. 9% turnout rate. Kilpatrick Hills Loch Lomond Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park River Leven West Dunbartonshire at DMOZ
West Dunbartonshire
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West Dunbartonshire Wast Dunbartanshire Siorrachd Dhùn Bhreatainn an Iar
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Argyll and Bute
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Argyll and Bute is both one of 32 unitary authority council areas and a lieutenancy area in Scotland. The administrative centre for the area is in Lochgilphead. Argyll and Bute covers the second largest administrative area of any Scottish council, the council area adjoins those of Highland, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire. Its border runs through Loch Lomond, the present council area was created in 1996, when it was carved out of the Strathclyde region, which was a two-tier local government region of 19 districts, created in 1975. Argyll and Bute merged the existing Argyll and Bute district and one ward of the Dumbarton district. The Dumbarton ward, called Helensburgh and Lomond, included the burgh of Helensburgh and consisted of an area to the west of Loch Lomond, north of the Firth of Clyde and mostly east of Loch Long. The council area can also be described by reference to divisions of the counties which were abolished in 1975, the council area includes most of the county of Argyll, part of the county of Bute and part of the county of Dunbartonshire. The later scenes of the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love were filmed around the lochs and hills of Argyll, the Colintraive in Cowal to Rhubodach on the Isle of Bute route, across the Kyles of Bute, is operated by Caledonian MacBrayne. The Portavadie in Cowal to Tarbert on the Kintyre Peninsula route, as a result of the investigation, a council employee was suspended for setting up fake social media accounts to monitor what was being said about the council. The councils own investigation later confirmed it had no evidence of any form of spying or covert surveillance having been carried out by any employee within the councils communication team. In June 2012, the council was criticised for banning a local primary student, Martha Payne. The blog, NeverSeconds, had been praised by the celebrity chef, on the day the story broke, the blog had raised over £40,000. After an initial statement from the defending the decision, the ban was subsequently overturned by council leader. In November 2012 a book written by David Payne, father of Neverseconds blogger Martha Payne, revealed the background to the attempt to censor. The book states about the council, My anger and frustration at Argyll, thinly veiled attacks on our parenting on national radio and an abusive phonecall stood out as examples of a public body sick to the very top. Complaints via the proper procedures and through elected councillors had no visible changes. Far from being contrite they seemed to take a pride in being untouchable, Argyll and Bute Council election,2012 Censorship in the United Kingdom List of places in Argyll and Bute Gaelic place names of Scotland Argyll and Bute Council Argyll and Bute at DMOZ
Argyll and Bute
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Argyll and Bute Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd Argyll an Bute
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Stirling (district)
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The Stirling council area is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 92,800. Both counties were abolished for local government purposes under the Local Government Act 1973, the administrative centre of the area is the city of Stirling. The area borders the areas of Clackmannanshire, North Lanarkshire, Falkirk, Perth and Kinross, Argyll and Bute. The remaining 30 percent of the population is sparsely distributed across the rural, mainly highland. The southern half of rural area comprises the flat western floodplain of the River Forth, bounded on the south by the Touch Hills. North of the glen lie the Trossachs mountains, and the half of the region is generally mountainous in character. As with all local authorities in Scotland, Stirling Council has a number of multi-member wards electing representatives under the single vote system
Stirling (district)
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Coat of arms
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
Geographic coordinate system
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Body of water
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Body of Water is a musical conceived by Tony Kienitz and Tanna Herr with music by Jim Walker. It entails the life of fourteen teens left behind in a war crisis. The show was the production of A Theatre Near U. The show was adapted from music written by Jim Walker, the music for the show was nominated for Best Original Music by the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Excellence in Theatre Awards. The album is available on iTunes here, the overall reception of Body of Water was positive. He also praised the music by Jim Walker as wonderfully raw, cryptic, richard Conema of Talkin Broadway and member of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle agreed with Jarrett on the music and choreography. He also said that the actors of the show are the adult performers of the future. These young people are doing work and many aspire to be professional actors. He also commended producing theatre company A Theatre Near U, saying that A Theatre Near U may have just fired the first shot in a revolution to determine the future of Youth Theatre
Body of water
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The original poster for Body of Water, the Musical.
Body of water
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Loch
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Loch is the Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Scots word for a lake or for a sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, some lochs could also be called firths, fjords, estuaries, straits or bays. The word is Indo-European in origin, cf. Latin lacus, lowland Scots orthography, like Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish, represents /x/ with ch, so the word was borrowed with identical spelling. English borrowed the word separately from a number of loughs in the previous Cumbric language areas of Northumbria and Cumbria, earlier forms of English included the sound /x/ as gh. However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament and this form was therefore used when the English settled Ireland. The Scots convention of using ch remained, hence the modern Scottish English loch, the Goidelic lo being taken into Scottish Gaelic by the gradual replacement of much Brittonic orthography with Goidelic orthography in Scotland. Many of the loughs in Northern England have also previously been called such as the Black Lough in Northumberland. However, reference to the latter as loughs, rather than as lakes, inlets, although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan. Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is Loch Ness, although there are other examples such as Loch Awe, Loch Lomond. Examples of sea lochs in Scotland include Loch Long, Loch Fyne, Loch Linnhe, Loch Eriboll, Loch Tristan, Trisloch. Some new reservoirs for hydroelectric schemes have been given names faithful to the names for bodies of water - for example, the Loch Sloy scheme. Other expanses are simply called reservoirs, e. g. Blackwater Reservoir above Kinlochleven, Scotland has very few bodies of water called lakes. Until the 19th century the body of water was known as the Loch of Menteith, the Lake of the Hirsel, Pressmennan Lake and Lake Louise are man-made bodies of water in Scotland known as lakes. The word loch is used as a shibboleth to identify natives of England. As loch is a common Gaelic word, it is found as the root of several Manx placenames, the United States naval port of Pearl Harbor, on the south coast of the main Hawaiian island of Oahu, is one of a complex of sea inlets. Several are named as lochs, including South East Loch, Merry Loch, East Loch, Middle Loch, Loch Raven Reservoir is a reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland. Brenton Loch in the Falkland Islands is a sea loch, near Lafonia, in the Scottish settlement of Glengarry County in present-day Eastern Ontario, there is a lake called Loch Garry. Loch Garry was named by those who settled in the area, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry after the well-known loch their clan is from, Loch Garry in Scotland
Loch
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View across
Loch Lomond, towards
Ben Lomond
Loch
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Looking down Loch Long, which is a sea loch
Loch
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Loch Lubnaig, a reservoir
Loch
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The
Lake of Menteith (Loch Innis MoCholmaig)
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Ribbon lake
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A ribbon lake is a long and narrow, finger-shaped lake, usually found in a glacial trough. Its formation begins when a glacier moves over an area containing alternate bands of hard, the sharp-edged boulders that are picked up by the glacier and carried at the bottom of the glacier erode the softer rock more quickly by abrasion, thus creating a hollow called a rock basin. A ribbon lake may also form behind a terminal or recessional moraine, a ribbon lake may also occur if a tributary glacier joins a main glacier. The increase in power can create a trough, which is filled with water from a river/meltwater to create a ribbon lake, a ribbon lake is one of a number of glacial landscapes. These include arêtes, corries, rock lips, rock basins, examples of ribbon lakes are, Windermere, Panguipulli, Coniston Water, Lake Washington, Wastwater, and Llyn Ogwen. A ribbon lake named Driedmeat Lake just south of Camrose, Alberta, 52°52′39″N 112°46′0″W Griffiths, Joshua
Ribbon lake
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Windermere in the
Lake District
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Formation of a ribbon lake
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Dimictic
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Dimictic lakes mix from the surface to bottom twice each year. Dimictic lakes are holomictic, a category includes all lakes which mix one or more times per year. During winter, they are covered by ice, during summer, they are thermally stratified, with temperature-derived density differences separating the warm surface waters, from the colder bottom waters. Mixing typically occurs during the spring and autumn, when the lake is isothermal, at this time, the water throughout the lake is about 4 °C, and, in the absence of any temperature or density differences, the lake readily mixes from top to bottom. These lakes are common in regions with temperate climates, amictic Holomictic Meromictic Monomictic Polymictic Thermocline Circulation, annual patterns of dimictic lakes at Encyclopædia Britannica Online
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Typical mixing pattern for a
dimictic lake
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Inflow (hydrology)
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In hydrology, the inflow of a body of water is the source of the water in the body of water. It can also refer to the volume of incoming water in unit time. All bodies of water have multiple inflows, but often, one inflow may predominate, however, in many cases, no single inflow will predominate and there will be multiple primary inflows. For a lake, the inflow may be a river or stream that flows into the lake. Inflow may also be, strictly speaking, not flows, but rather precipitation, inflow can also be used to refer to groundwater recharge. The dictionary definition of inflow at Wiktionary
Inflow (hydrology)
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Torrente Pescone, one of the inflows of
lake Orta (
Italy).
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Discharge (hydrology)
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In hydrology, discharge is the volume rate of water flow that is transported through a given cross-sectional area. It includes any suspended solids, dissolved chemicals, or biologic material in addition to the water itself, GH Dury and MJ Bradshaw are two hydrologists who devised the models showing the relationship between discharge and other variables in a river. The units that are used to express discharge include m³/s, ft³/s and/or acre-feet per day. For example, the discharge of the Rhine river in Europe is 2,200 cubic metres per second or 190,000,000 cubic metres per day. A commonly applied methodology for measuring, and estimating, the discharge of a river is based on a form of the continuity equation. In storm hydrology, an important consideration is the streams discharge hydrograph, the stream rises to a peak flow after each precipitation event, then falls in a slow recession. Because the peak flow also corresponds to the water level reached during the event. The amount of precipitation correlates to the volume of water that flows out of the river. The relationship between the discharge in the stream at a given cross-section and the level of the stream is described by a rating curve, average velocities and the cross-sectional area of the stream are measured for a given stream level. The velocity and the give the discharge for that level. After measurements are made for different levels, a rating table or rating curve may be developed. Once rated, the discharge in the stream may be determined by measuring the level, if a continuous level-recording device is located at a rated cross-section, the streams discharge may be continuously determined. Larger flows can transport more sediment and larger particles downstream than smaller flows due to their greater force, larger flows can also erode stream banks and damage public infrastructure
Discharge (hydrology)
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Hydroelectricity generation
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River Leven, Dunbartonshire
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The River Leven is a stretch of water in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, flowing from Loch Lomond in the North to the River Clyde in the South. The total length of the river is approximately six miles and is popular with salmon and sea trout anglers. The Vale of Leven is a collection of communities in the part of the river. Dumbarton Castle sits at the confluence of the river with the Clyde, the Leven is a relatively short river but is widely claimed to be the second fastest flowing river in Scotland, after the River Spey. The river is crossed by nine bridges and two weirs, there is a path for pedestrians and cyclists near the river, which connects with a cycle path to Glasgow. It follows the river closely from Balloch to Renton, less closely from Renton to Dumbarton. In the past the river was used to get steamers into Loch Lomond, although they sometimes did not find it an easy journey, nowadays the river is considered to be not navigable. The height of the river can vary, sometimes being a good deal higher in winter than summer, list of places in West Dunbartonshire William Denny and Brothers History of the River Leven - Clyde Waterfront Heritage
River Leven, Dunbartonshire
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River Leven, Dunbartonshire
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Drainage basin
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A drainage basin or catchment area is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water. Drainage basins connect into other drainage basins at elevations in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins. Other terms used to describe drainage basins are catchment, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin and water basin. In closed drainage basins the water converges to a point inside the basin, known as a sink, which may be a permanent lake. The drainage basin acts as a funnel by collecting all the water within the covered by the basin. Each drainage basin is separated topographically from adjacent basins by a perimeter, drainage basins are similar but not identical to hydrologic units, which are drainage areas delineated so as to nest into a multi-level hierarchical drainage system. Hydrologic units are defined to allow multiple inlets, outlets, or sinks, in a strict sense, all drainage basins are hydrologic units but not all hydrologic units are drainage basins. Drainage basins of the oceans and seas of the world. Grey areas are endorheic basins that do not drain to the oceans, the following is a list of the major ocean basins, About 48. 7% of the worlds land drains to the Atlantic Ocean. The two major mediterranean seas of the world also flow to the Atlantic, The Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico basin includes most of the U. S. The Mediterranean Sea basin includes much of North Africa, east-central Africa, Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the areas of Israel, Lebanon. Just over 13% of the land in the world drains to the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Oceans drainage basin also comprises about 13% of Earths land. It drains the eastern coast of Africa, the coasts of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, Burma, antarctica comprises approximately eight percent of the Earths land. The five largest river basins, from largest to smallest, are the basins of the Amazon, the Río de la Plata, the Congo, the Nile, and the Mississippi. The three rivers that drain the most water, from most to least, are the Amazon, Ganga, endorheic drainage basins are inland basins that do not drain to an ocean. Around 18% of all land drains to endorheic lakes or seas or sinks, the largest of these consists of much of the interior of Asia, which drains into the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and numerous smaller lakes. Some of these, such as the Great Basin, are not single drainage basins but collections of separate, in endorheic bodies of standing water where evaporation is the primary means of water loss, the water is typically more saline than the oceans. An extreme example of this is the Dead Sea, drainage basins have been historically important for determining territorial boundaries, particularly in regions where trade by water has been important
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Animation of
Latoriţa River drainage basin,
Romania
Drainage basin
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Example of a drainage basin. The dashed line is the main water divide of the hydrographic basin.
Drainage basin
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Endorheic basin in
Central Asia
Drainage basin
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The
Mississippi River drains the largest area of any
U.S. river, much of it
agricultural regions. Agricultural runoff and other water pollution that flows to the outlet is the cause of the
hypoxic, or dead zone in the
Gulf of Mexico.
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Water cycle
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The water cycle, also known as the hydrological cycle or the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. In doing so, the water goes through different forms, liquid, solid, the water cycle involves the exchange of energy, which leads to temperature changes. For instance, when water evaporates, it takes up energy from its surroundings, when it condenses, it releases energy and warms the environment. The evaporative phase of the cycle purifies water which then replenishes the land with freshwater, the flow of liquid water and ice transports minerals across the globe. It is also involved in reshaping the geological features of the Earth, the water cycle is also essential for the maintenance of most life and ecosystems on the planet. The sun, which drives the cycle, heats water in oceans. Water evaporates as water vapor into the air, ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapour. Evapotranspiration is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil, the water vapour molecule H 2O has less density compared to the major components of the atmosphere, nitrogen and oxygen, N2 andO2. Due to the significant difference in mass, water vapor in gas form gains height in open air as a result of buoyancy. However, as increases, air pressure decreases and the temperature drops. The lowered temperature causes water vapour to condense into a liquid water droplet which is heavier than the air. A huge concentration of these droplets over a space up in the atmosphere become visible as cloud. Fog is formed if the water vapour condenses near ground level, as a result of moist air, air currents move water vapour around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the upper atmospheric layers as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow or hail, sleet, and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, most water falls back into the oceans or onto land as rain, where the water flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, runoff and water emerging from the ground may be stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers, much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration, some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers, which can store freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies as groundwater discharge. Some groundwater finds openings in the surface and comes out as freshwater springs
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Schematic illustration of the global water cycle.
Water cycle
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The water cycle
Water cycle
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Time-mean precipitation and evaporation as a function of latitude as simulated by an aqua-planet version of an atmospheric GCM (GFDL’s AM2.1) with a homogeneous “slab-ocean” lower boundary (saturated surface with small heat capacity), forced by annual mean insolation.
Water cycle
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Global map of annual mean evaporation minus precipitation by latitude-longitude
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Inchcailloch
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Inchcailloch is an island on Loch Lomond in Scotland. It is 85 m at its highest point and it is also known to some as Inchebroida. The name Inchcailloch means Isle of the old woman or Isle of the Cowled Woman in the Scottish Gaelic language, saint Kentigerna went to Scotland from Ireland to preach and spread Christianity and the island is thought to be named after her. Inchmurrin, Creinch, Torrinch, and Inchcailloch all form part of the Highland boundary fault, there is a burial ground in the north of the island, and a bay, Port Bawn, in the south. Like many of the Loch Lomond islands, it is heavily wooded. There is a ferry across the short channel separating it from Balmaha on the mainland. As a result, it receives more visitors than most of the Loch Lomond islands, there is a camp site in the south at Port Bawn and a nature trail. Inchcailloch has been used as a hunting forest since the reign of Robert the Bruce, white deer have been seen on the island in 2003. The narrow crossing is very shallow making a passage for deer to ford. The island was farmed until the early 19th century, being recorded in 1800 as producing good wheat and oats, for around 130 years, Inchcailloch was an oak plantation. The resulting timber was processed at Balmaha, for making wood vinegar, wood tar, Inchcailloch had a church dedicated to St Kentigerna, which was the parish church until 1621, but the graveyard was used until 1947. St Kentigerna was an Irish woman who is not to be confused with St Kentigern, the Clan MacGregor burial ground includes some of Rob Roys ancestors. Legends have passed by word of mouth that the bones of a woman were found under the stone during an excavation. Inchcailloch forms part of a reserve, owned and run by Scottish Natural Heritage. Inchcailloch is mentioned in Dr William Frasers The Lennox, morton visited in the 1930s, and remarked, The isle is sacred to the MacGregors, and in the tangled brances and amongst the green trees is their ancient burial ground. It was on the halidom of him who sleeps beneath the stone of Inchcailloch that members of this vigorous clan used to take their oaths
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From the summit of Inchcailloch over the woodland with the neighbouring island,
Inchfad in the background
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A map of the 1800s showing the islands of Loch Lomond.
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Inchmurrin
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Inchmurrin is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland. It is the largest fresh water island in the British Isles, Inchmurrin is the largest and most southerly of the islands in Loch Lomond. It reaches a height of 89 metres towards the north and is largely wooded, there is an excellent view of the north end of the loch. Along with Creinch, Torrinch, and Inchcailloch, Inchmurrin forms part of the Highland boundary fault, Inchmurrin was the site of a 7th-century monastery, with a chapel dedicated to Saint Mirin, after whom it was named. The island was formerly a park of the Dukes of Montrose. 200 deer are recorded in 1800, there are ruins of Lennox Castle, probably built for Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox whose seat was Balloch Castle at the south end of Loch Lomond. The castle was probably a hunting lodge for the park established on the island by King Robert I of Scotland in the early 14th century. In 1417, Iain Colquhoun of Luss was killed here by robbers, sir John Colquhoun of Luss, governor of Dumbarton Castle, was murdered at Inchmurrin in 1439, during a raid led by Lachlan MacLean. In 1617, James VI made his return visit to Scotland. Lord Lennox wrote to the custodian of the island on 23 July 1617, asking for food to be prepared for a good nombre of sharpe stomaches, probably a reference to the hunting trip. At one point, his men came to all the boats on the River Endrick and Loch Lomond. Inchmurrin was used as an asylum, and also unmarried pregnant women were sent here to give birth. Morton visited Inchmurrin in the 1930s and described it as the grassy isle, the island has been owned by the Scott family for over 70 years. They farm it and run self-catering apartments, a cottage, and they used to have a sign at the jetty saying, You are now entering Scott Country. The World Record for haggis hurling was held by Alan Pettigrew for over 20 years and he threw a 1 lb 8 oz haggis 180 feet,10 inches on Inchmurrin in August 1984. However this was beaten when a new record was set at 217 feet by Lorne Coltart at the Milngavie Highland Games on 11 June 2011. As well as offering self catered accommodation in the form of 3 flats and an 8-person cottage, Inchmurrin is licensed to hold civil ceremonies. There is a naturist camp in the north east of the island, http, //www. inchmurrin-lochlomond. com/ - official website http, //www. lochlomond-islands. com/ article which mentions it
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View of Inchmurrin
Inchmurrin
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From the summit of
Inchcailloch to
Torrinch,
Creinch, Inchmurrin and Ben Bowie.
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A map of the 1800s showing the islands of Loch Lomond.
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Inchfad
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Inchfad is an island in the south east of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Inchfad is 1.35 km long and forty hectares in area and its highest point is 25 metres. The island forms part of the parish of Buchanan in west central Scotland, formerly part of Stirlingshire, Inchfad is partially wooded and has two residents. There are two houses on Inchfad, a bungalow which served as the original farmhouse and a wooden house used as a holiday home. The very small island of Ellanderroch is just off its south-western tip, there is a canal on the island which is ¼ mile long, connected with the distillery. After the closure of illicit whisky stills around the loch, Inchfad became the home of a registered distillery, the ruins can be seen to this day. A canal was built to minimize the distance that the raw materials for the whisky had to be man handled, other owners have included the Dukes of Montrose, and Charles Collins, founder of the publishing dynasty. The island was bought in 1944 by an English couple called Davison, everything was brought up by train from the Wirral, including livestock. After they succeeded, they sold the island, and set off in a fishing vessel. His widow Ann Davison later wrote an autobiography called Home was an Island about their life on Inchmurrin, in 1953 Ann Davison then went on to sail the Atlantic single handed and was the first woman to accomplish this. She spent her life in the US. Inverarnan Canal article which mentions it
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Woodland on Inchfad
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Geography
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Balloch, West Dunbartonshire
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Balloch is a small town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, at the foot of Loch Lomond. Balloch comes from the Gaelic word bal which means village or hamlet, so Balloch means village on the loch, the word bealach means a pass. Balloch is at the end of the Vale of Leven. It connects to the town of Alexandria and to the smaller village of Jamestown. It also borders the Kilpatrick Hills, to the east of the town lies the major local authority housing scheme in the area known as The Haldane or The Mill of Haldane. At 56 degrees N, Balloch is at about the latitude as Moscow. The town has a number of hotels, inns and pubs, and there are cruises from Balloch up Loch Lomond, and other services, including to locations like Luss. The largest number of boats cruising on Loch Lomond leave from Balloch, the town is also the home of Dunkirk vessel Skylark XI which helped rescue 600 troops during WWII. It contains Balloch Country Park and Balloch Castle, and is at the end of the first Scottish national park, Loch Lomond. There is a Sea Life Centre in the town, the Loch Lomond Youth Soccer Festival used to take place in the town. Lochfoot in the Jean Robertson novels of Jane Duncan is partly based on the town, the PS Maid of the Loch is currently being restored at Balloch pier and the Balloch Steam Slipway is located nearby. The A811 road goes from Balloch to Stirling, and the A813 goes from Dumbarton to Balloch, the Glasgow to Loch Lomond cycle path ends at Balloch. The West Loch Lomond Cycle Path also runs from Balloch, the town was formerly served by two railway stations on the Caledonian and Dunbartonshire Junction Railway, Balloch Central, and Balloch Pier, which closed in 1988 and 1986, respectively. The town now has one station opened by British Rail. Balloch is served by Haldane Primary School and formerly St. Kessogs Primary School before its demolition in 2015, list of places in West Dunbartonshire 2
Balloch, West Dunbartonshire
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National Park Visitor Centre with the '
Maid of the Loch ' in the background
Balloch, West Dunbartonshire
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An
environmental art installation in the woods at Balloch
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Ardlui
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Ardlui is a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. It is located at the head of Loch Lomond and it is on the A82 road between Crianlarich and Glasgow and Ardlui railway station is on the West Highland Line between Glasgow Queen Street and Oban or Fort William. A battle is said to have taken place in area between the Briton and the Western Scots in the year 717. The hotel at Ardlui was originally built by the local Colquhoun family estate in the early 1800s as a hunting lodge, a holiday park is located next to the hotel. The Ardlui Hotel runs a ferry from the pontoon at the Ardlui Marina which carries walkers to the West Highland Way at Ardleish Farm. This service runs throughout the tourist season for all travellers and for guests for the remainder of the year. Potential passengers use a signal hoist at Ardleish to beckon the ferry, steamers also called at the Old Garabal Landing on the river itself. Arrochar, Tarbet and Ardlui History website Video footage of Ardlui Video footage of the Ardlui to Ardleish Ferry
Ardlui
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Ardlui, the
marina, and
Loch Lomond, seen from
Ardlui railway station
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Balmaha
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Balmaha is a village on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond in the council area of Stirling, Scotland. The village is a popular tourist destination for picnickers and day trippers from Glasgow as well as walkers on the West Highland Way, boat trips leave from Balmaha for the town of Balloch and the village of Luss as well as nearby Inchcailloch Island. Balmaha sits at the foot of Conic Hill, and is roughly 30 kilometres along the West Highland Way. The name Balmaha derives from the Gaelic Bealach Mo-Cha, the pass of Saint Mo-Cha, the pass referred to is now named The Pass of Balmaha, a narrow route between hills at the north end of the village, carrying the road north along Loch Lomond. The saint referred to is Kentigerna, patron saint of the parish who was culted especially on the island of Inchcailloch. Mo-Cha is a form of her name, a sort of devotional nickname, common in medieval Gaelic. She is also commemorated in a well in the hills above the village, the village has a visitor centre for the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park. It also has a restaurant and Bed and Breakfast, the Oak Tree Inn, a bar and a shop. It is also the home of St Mocha coffee shop and ice cream parlour selling homemade ice cream, loose leaf teas, further along the road is Milarrochy Bay. Undiscovered Scotland - Balmaha Scottish Accommodation Index - Balmaha Information
Balmaha
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The Main Street in Balmaha
Balmaha
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The harbor and boat yard on
Loch Lomond at Balmaha
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Luss
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Luss is a village in Argyll & Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. The village is within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, historically in the County of Dunbarton, its original name is Clachan dubh, or dark village. Ben Lomond, the most southerly Munro, dominates the north over the loch. Saint Kessog brought Christianity to Luss at some date in the Dark Ages. A well-preserved late medieval effigy of a bishop is preserved within the modern church, the present Church of Scotland place of worship was built in 1875 by Sir James Colquhoun, in memory of his father who had drowned in the loch in December 1873. The church is noted for its services as well as for holding over one hundred weddings per year. Luss is the home of Clan Colquhoun. Nowadays Luss is a village, with a bypass carrying the busy A82 trunk road. In its position just off the road to the West Highlands, it is visited by many tourists, and has a large car and coach park. Many of Luss cottages have been described as picturesque, the village has a kiltmaker and a bagpipe works. In recent years, Luss became famous as a result of being the main location for the Scottish Television drama series Take the High Road. Although the programme is no longer made, some in Luss remain proud of the connection, its fictional name, about a mile south of the village, in a cove at Aldochlay, is a small figure on a stone plinth. A contemporary legend evolved that it is a memorial to a child drowned in the loch, but it was in fact erected in 1890 by a local stonemason, who found the statue in a London scrapyard. Wee Peter, as he is known, was moved to the site after a brief spell near the railway. The village hosts a water service to Balloch, at the south of the loch, allowing visitors to transfer onwards to Glasgow by train or visit its shopping centre. Luss Pier is a starting point for boat trips on the loch. The Loch Lomond Golf Club, which was for a number of years the site of the Barclays Scottish Open, is within the villages borders, map sources for Luss The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park - website
Luss
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Luss Parish Church
Luss
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The Lodge on Loch Lomond Hotel from Luss Pier.
Luss
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Douglas firs at Luss with the chapel behind.
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Rowardennan
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Rowardennan is a small rural community on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland. It is mainly known as the point for the main path up Ben Lomond. Rowardennan is at the end of the public road, but the West Highland Way passes through the area. Rowardennan has a hostel and camping for hikers on the West Highland Way, a small passenger ferry crosses the loch to Tarbet on the opposite shore. Rowardennan has a hotel, hostel and chalet accommodation and it appears as Dennans Row in Walter Scotts poem The Lady of the Lake. Grid reference NS360990 Loch Lomond - Rowardennan
Rowardennan
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Looking east across
Loch Lomond to Rowardennan
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Tarbet, Argyll and Bute
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Tarbet is a small village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Located within the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, traditionally on the northern fringes of the historic County of Dunbartonshire, it is on the banks of Loch Lomond, and has a pier. It stands on an isthmus where Loch Long and Loch Lomond come close, the village of Arrochar stands at the head of Loch Long, at the other side of the isthmus. Arrochar and Tarbet railway station, on the West Highland Line, the village has a primary school, many hotels and bed and breakfasts, and a Tourist Information Centre. Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic word for isthmus, although Tarbert is the more common anglicization, the village is formed around the junction of the A82 and A83. The area around Arrochar and Tarbet has become the scene of squirrel wars, the red squirrel is resisting the offensive by the grey squirrel taking place across United Kingdom, since there is a type of woodland they find more favourable than most
Tarbet, Argyll and Bute
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The Tarbet Hotel
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Ramsar Convention
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The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands. It is also known as the Convention on Wetlands and it is named after the city of Ramsar in Iran, where the Convention was signed in 1971. The most recent COP12 was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, cOP13 will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2018. The List of Wetlands of International Importance included 2,231 Ramsar Sites in March 2016 covering over 2.1 million square kilometres. The country with the highest number of Sites is the United Kingdom with 170, the Ramsar Sites Information Service is a searchable database which provides information on each Ramsar Site. As of 2016 there are 18 Transboundary Ramsar Sites, as of 2016 there are 15 Ramsar Regional Initiatives covering regions of the Mediterranean, Asia, Africa and South America. The Ramsar Convention works closely with six other known as International Organization Partners. The IOPs also participate regularly as observers in all meetings of the Conference of the Parties and as members of the Scientific. Conference of the Parties Conference of the Parties is the Conventions governing body consisting of all governments that have ratified the treaty and this ultimate authority reviews progress under the Convention, identifies new priorities, and sets work plans for members. The COP can also make amendments to the Convention, create expert advisory bodies, review progress reports by member nations, and collaborate with other international organizations and agreements. The Standing Committee The Standing Committee is the executive body which represents the COP between its triennial meetings, within the framework of the decisions made by the COP. The Contracting Parties that are members of the Standing Committee are elected by each meeting of the COP to serve for the three years until the next one, the Secretariat The Secretariat carries out the day-to-day coordination of the Convention’s activities. It is based at the headquarters of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, the 2nd of February each year is World Wetlands Day, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971. Established to raise awareness about the value of wetlands for humanity, in 2015 World Wetlands Day was celebrated in 59 countries
Ramsar Convention
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Wetland
Ramsar Convention
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Ramsar logo
Ramsar Convention
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General
Ramsar Convention
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Marine
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Scottish Gaelic language
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Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to as Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish. The 2011 census of Scotland showed that a total of 57,375 people in Scotland could speak Gaelic at that time, the census results indicate a decline of 1,275 Gaelic speakers from 2001. A total of 87,056 people in 2011 reported having some facility with Gaelic compared to 93,282 people in 2001, only about half of speakers were fully literate in the language. Nevertheless, revival efforts exist and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 has increased, Scottish Gaelic is neither an official language of the European Union nor the United Kingdom. Outside Scotland, a group of dialects collectively known as Canadian Gaelic are spoken in parts of Atlantic Canada, mainly Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. In the 2011 census, there were 7,195 total speakers of Gaelic languages in Canada, with 1,365 in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island where the responses mainly refer to Scottish Gaelic. About 2,320 Canadians in 2011 also claimed Gaelic languages as their mother tongue, with over 300 in Nova Scotia, aside from Scottish Gaelic, the language may also be referred to simply as Gaelic. In Scotland, the word Gaelic in reference to Scottish Gaelic specifically is pronounced, outside Ireland and Great Britain, Gaelic may refer to the Irish language. Scottish Gaelic should not be confused with Scots, the Middle English-derived language varieties which had come to be spoken in most of the Lowlands of Scotland by the modern era. Prior to the 15th century, these dialects were known as Inglis by its own speakers, from the late 15th century, however, it became increasingly common for such speakers to refer to Scottish Gaelic as Erse and the Lowland vernacular as Scottis. Today, Scottish Gaelic is recognised as a language from Irish. Gaelic in Scotland was mostly confined to Dál Riata until the 8th century, when it began expanding into Pictish areas north of the Firth of Forth, by 900, Pictish appears to have become extinct, completely replaced by Gaelic. An exception might be made for the Northern Isles, however, however, though the Pictish language did not disappear suddenly, a process of Gaelicisation was clearly underway during the reigns of Caustantín and his successors. By a certain point, probably during the 11th century, all the inhabitants of Alba had become fully Gaelicised Scots, by the 10th century, Gaelic had become the dominant language throughout northern and western Scotland, the Gaelo-Pictic Kingdom of Alba. Its spread to southern Scotland, was even and totalizing. Place name analysis suggests dense usage of Gaelic in Galloway and adjoining areas to the north and west as well as in West Lothian, less dense usage is suggested for north Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, the Clyde Valley and eastern Dumfriesshire. In south-eastern Scotland, there is no evidence that Gaelic was ever widely spoken, the area shifted from Cumbric to Old English during its long incorporation into the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria
Scottish Gaelic language
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1891 distribution of
English and Gaelic in Scotland
Scottish Gaelic language
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Anne Lorne Gillies speaking publicly in the Scottish Gaelic language.
Scottish Gaelic language
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Coronation of
King Alexander III on
Moot Hill,
Scone on 13 July 1249. He is being greeted by the ollamh rìgh, the royal poet, who is addressing him with the proclamation "Benach De Re Albanne" (= Beannachd Dè Rìgh Alban, "God's Blessing on the King of Scotland"); the poet goes on to recite Alexander's genealogy.
Scottish Gaelic language
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Public signage in Gaelic is becoming increasingly common throughout the Scottish Highlands. This sign is located in the bilingual port community of
Mallaig.
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Highland Boundary Fault
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The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two different physiographic and geological terrains, the Highlands from the Lowlands, and in most places it is recognisable as a change in topography. Where rivers cross the fault, they pass through gorges. In the same publication, Barrow also outlines the ʻHighland Faultʼ and it comes ashore near Helensburgh, then continues through Loch Lomond. The loch islands of Inchmurrin, Creinch, Torrinch, and Inchcailloch all form part of the Highland Boundary Fault, from Loch Lomond the Highland Boundary Fault continues to Aberfoyle, then Callander, Comrie and Crieff. It then forms the boundary of Strathmore and reaches the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven near the ruined Chapel of St. Mary. Aeromagnetic maps of Great Britain and Northern Ireland show that the Highland Boundary Fault can be traced from Ireland to the region of Greenock, the Highland Boundary Fault in these areas are seen to be dividing a northerly low area from a southerly high area. In 1970, Hall and Dagley identified the Highland Boundary Fault as coincident with a regional magnetic feature dividing a string of anomalies in the north from positive ones in the south. On discovering this, Hall and Dagley concluded that the observed trend and this linear feature of magnetic anomalies has since been referred to as the Fair Head-Clew Bay line. The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a rift by up to 4000 metres. This earlier vertical movement was replaced by a horizontal shear. A complementary fault, the Southern Uplands Fault, forms the boundary for the Central Lowlands. The reason the precise nature of the fault is still unknown is because there is evidence of a continuous fault plane on the surface. The fault plane was estimated to be dipping at 65o NW, to the south and east are Old Red Sandstone conglomerates and sandstones, softer, sedimentary rocks of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. Between these areas lie the quite different rocks of the Highland Border Complex and these make up a zone which is found discontinuously along the line of the fault and which is up to 1.2 kilometres in width. The Dalradian Supergroup consists of rocks which underwent polyphase deformation and metamorphism during the Precambrian. They were the earliest Grampian Group rocks and were deformed and metamorphosed around 750 Ma, the deposition of younger Dalradian sediments continued until 590 Ma, where the sediments underwent transformation to the green schist facies during the Proterozoic and Ordovician. Modeling of gravity and magnetic data along the fault has confirmed the presence of an extensive ophiolite suite, the Dalradian metasedimentary rocks are overlain by an obducted ophiolite that is continuous for at least several kilometers on either side of the Highland Boundary Fault
Highland Boundary Fault
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View along the Highland Boundary Fault from Conic Hill - the topographic ridge is mainly due to the presence of
Devonian age conglomerates on the southwestern side of the fault and can be traced across
Loch Lomond on the islands of
Inchcailloch,
Torrinch,
Creinch and
Inchmurrin, to Ben Bowie on the western shore
Highland Boundary Fault
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Altered
serpentinite and associated sediments of the Highland Border Complex caught up in the fault zone - exposed on Druim nam Buraich, near
Balmaha
Highland Boundary Fault
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Lower
Devonian sandstones and conglomerates of the Inchmurrin Member
dipping steeply to the southeast close to the Highland Boundary Fault trace near Balmaha
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Great Britain
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Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km2, Great Britain is the largest European island, in 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the worlds third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it, the island is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island. The term Great Britain often extends to surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales. A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England, the archipelago has been referred to by a single name for over 2000 years, the term British Isles derives from terms used by classical geographers to describe this island group. By 50 BC Greek geographers were using equivalents of Prettanikē as a name for the British Isles. However, with the Roman conquest of Britain the Latin term Britannia was used for the island of Great Britain, the oldest mention of terms related to Great Britain was by Aristotle, or possibly by Pseudo-Aristotle, in his text On the Universe, Vol. III. To quote his works, There are two large islands in it, called the British Isles, Albion and Ierne. The name Britain descends from the Latin name for Britain, Britannia or Brittānia, Old French Bretaigne and Middle English Bretayne, Breteyne. The French form replaced the Old English Breoton, Breoten, Bryten, Breten, Britannia was used by the Romans from the 1st century BC for the British Isles taken together. It is derived from the writings of the Pytheas around 320 BC. Marcian of Heraclea, in his Periplus maris exteri, described the group as αἱ Πρεττανικαὶ νῆσοι. The peoples of these islands of Prettanike were called the Πρεττανοί, Priteni is the source of the Welsh language term Prydain, Britain, which has the same source as the Goidelic term Cruithne used to refer to the early Brythonic-speaking inhabitants of Ireland. The latter were later called Picts or Caledonians by the Romans, the Greco-Egyptian scientist Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain and to Ireland as little Britain in his work Almagest. The name Albion appears to have out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Britain. After the Anglo-Saxon period, Britain was used as a term only. It was used again in 1604, when King James VI and I styled himself King of Great Brittaine, France, Great Britain refers geographically to the island of Great Britain, politically to England, Scotland and Wales in combination
Great Britain
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Satellite image of Great Britain in April 2002
Great Britain
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Prima Europe tabula. A copy of
Ptolemy 's 2nd century map of Roman Britain
Great Britain
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The
robin is popularly known as "Britain's favourite bird".
Great Britain
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Heather growing wild in the
Highlands at
Dornoch.
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British Isles
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The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have an area of approximately 315,159 km2. Two sovereign states are located on the islands, Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the oldest rocks in the group are in the north west of Scotland, Ireland and North Wales and are 2,700 million years old. During the Silurian period the north-western regions collided with the south-east, the topography of the islands is modest in scale by global standards. Ben Nevis rises to an elevation of only 1,344 metres, and Lough Neagh, the climate is temperate marine, with mild winters and warm summers. The North Atlantic Drift brings significant moisture and raises temperatures 11 °C above the average for the latitude. This led to a landscape which was dominated by temperate rainforest. The region was re-inhabited after the last glacial period of Quaternary glaciation, Ireland, which became an island by 12,000 BC, was not inhabited until after 8000 BC. Great Britain became an island by 5600 BC, Hiberni, Pictish and Britons tribes, all speaking Insular Celtic, inhabited the islands at the beginning of the 1st millennium AD. Much of Brittonic-controlled Britain was conquered by the Roman Empire from AD43, the first Anglo-Saxons arrived as Roman power waned in the 5th century and eventually dominated the bulk of what is now England. Viking invasions began in the 9th century, followed by permanent settlements. Most of Ireland seceded from the United Kingdom after the Irish War of Independence, the term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term, as a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description, and Atlantic Archipelago has had limited use among a minority in academia, while British Isles is still commonly employed. Within them, they are sometimes referred to as these islands. The earliest known references to the islands as a group appeared in the writings of sea-farers from the ancient Greek colony of Massalia. The original records have been lost, however, later writings, e. g. Avienuss Ora maritima, in the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus has Prettanikē nēsos, the British Island, and Prettanoi, the Britons. Strabo used Βρεττανική, and Marcian of Heraclea, in his Periplus maris exteri, historians today, though not in absolute agreement, largely agree that these Greek and Latin names were probably drawn from native Celtic-language names for the archipelago. Along these lines, the inhabitants of the islands were called the Πρεττανοί, the shift from the P of Pretannia to the B of Britannia by the Romans occurred during the time of Julius Caesar
British Isles
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Satellite image of the British Isles, excluding
Shetland and the
Channel Islands (out of frame)
British Isles
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Some female red deer in
Killarney National Park, Ireland.
British Isles
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The Alfred Jewel (9th century)
British Isles
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James VI of Scotland (James I of England)
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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond, and includes several ranges of hills and the Trossachs. It was the first of the two parks established by the Scottish Parliament in 2002, the second being the Cairngorms National Park. The park is the fourth largest in the British Isles, with an area of 1,865 km2. It includes 21 Munros,19 Corbetts, two forest parks and 57 designated special nature conservation sites,15,600 people live in the park, which is customarily split into four sections, Breadalbane, Loch Lomond, The Trossachs, and Argyll Forest Park. The park consists of mountains and lochs, and the principal attractions are scenery, walking. Less intrepid visitors can detour from the A82 to view the Falls of Dochart, ben Lomond remains the most popular mountain in Scotland to be climbed
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park
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Looking eastwards along
Loch Katrine
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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond, and includes several ranges of hills and the Trossachs. It was the first of the two parks established by the Scottish Parliament in 2002, the second being the Cairngorms National Park. The park is the fourth largest in the British Isles, with an area of 1,865 km2. It includes 21 Munros,19 Corbetts, two forest parks and 57 designated special nature conservation sites,15,600 people live in the park, which is customarily split into four sections, Breadalbane, Loch Lomond, The Trossachs, and Argyll Forest Park. The park consists of mountains and lochs, and the principal attractions are scenery, walking. Less intrepid visitors can detour from the A82 to view the Falls of Dochart, ben Lomond remains the most popular mountain in Scotland to be climbed
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
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Looking eastwards along
Loch Katrine
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