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    • The most westerly of the Small Isles
    • Home to large colonies of seabirds
    • Tiny islands just 4.5 miles long and 1 mile wide

    A visit to Canna, the most westerly of the Small Isles, is a tonic for the soul. Approaching the island’s buttressed cliffs aboard the ferry, there’s a sense of the pressures of mainland life slowly releasing their grip. A small farming and crofting community still occupies this tiny island just 5 miles long and 1¼ miles wide, while archaeological evidence places people here as far back as the 5th millennium BC. MORE>

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    • - Population studies could show bad news for kittiwakes

      Kittiwakes could be on course to disappear from some of Scotland’s most important seabird colonies if current trends continue, according to conservation charity the National Trust for Scotland. more>

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