Fladda
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| Fladda | |
 Fladda Lighthouse | |
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| Location | |
| Location: | 56°15’0"N, 5°40’30"W |
| Grid reference: | NM720123 |
| Data | |
| Population: | uninhabited |
Fladda is one of the Slate Islands, off the west coast of Argyllshire. It is a little island, barely more than an islet, in the chain reaching out south-westwards in the sea gap between the Lorn coast and Jura.
The island sits in the Sound of Luing, between Luing and Belnahua. The name Fladda originates from the Old Norse for 'flat island'.
On Fladda stands a lighthouse and lighthousekeepers' cottages built in 1860 by brothers David and Thomas Stevenson, but today no one lives heer and it is left to its large colony of terns.
References
| The Slate Islands |
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Belnahua • Easdale • Fladda • Luing • Lunga • Seil • Shuna • Torsa |