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• Aberdeenshire
  ..., entering by a natural arch, boils up violently in stormy weather. Buchan Ness is the most easterly point of Scotland. ...enshire has regular communication with the [[Orkney]] and the [[Shetland]] Islands.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=51}}
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• Caithness
  ...4 miles by road. North of Caithness across the [[Pentland Firth]] lie the islands of [[Orkney]]. The Pentland Firth island of [[Stroma]] is within Caithness ...ly spoken in the low-lying land to the east of a line drawn from [[Clyth]] Ness to some 4 miles west of [[Thurso]].<ref>http://www.dsl.ac.uk/INTRO/intro2.p
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• Cromartyshire
  ...outline that it has a shore-line of 17 miles. It contains several wooded islands, and drains into Enard Bay by the River Polly. Det 5. Tarbat: Tarbat Ness to Portmahomack ({{wmap|57.852576|-3.796127|name=Cromartyshire Det 5}} {{ge
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• Inverness-shire
  ==Islands== The county's islands are too many to list in a mere summary, but major islands are:
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• Orkney
  ...2004) pp. 336-403.</ref><ref>Wickham-Jones (2007) p. 1 states there are 67 islands.</ref> ...he tenth-largest island in the [[British Isles]]. The largest town and the islands’ capital is [[Kirkwall]] on Mainland.<ref>Lamb, Raymond "Kirkwall" in Oma
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• Ross-shire
  ...he Isle of [[Lewis]] is part of the [[Outer Hebrides]], and contains those islands' only town, [[Stornoway]]. ...rness-shire]] and east of [[The Minch]]. There are also a number of small islands off the county's west coast, among which are:
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• Yell
  ...rith, James & Deborah (2007) ''Orkney & Shetland'' (part of ''The Scottish Islands'' series). Richmond. Crimson Publishing.</ref> and is the third most populo [[File:Nessofsound.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The Ness of Sound]]
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• Suffolk
  ...ess|Lowestoft Ness]], beyond which lies only the sea, empty of any further islands. *[[Lowestoft]] Ness; Britain's most easterly point
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• Stromness
  | LG district= Orkney Islands ...lso run to [[Hoy]] (barely a mile and a half across the Hoy Sound from the Ness) and to [[Graemsay]], the island which lies in the middle of the Sound.
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• Lerwick
  ...[[Shetland]] and the most northerly town in the United Kingdom. It is the islands' commercial and social heart and its main port. It is the port of call for ...d's Mainland]]. The town is nearly equidistant from Torshavn in the Faeroe Islands to the west, Bergen in Norway to the east and [[Aberdeen]] to the south on
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• Inverness
  ...h]], its name coming from the Gaelic ''Inbhir Nis'' meaning ''mouth of the Ness''). Its position makes it a meeting place of trade routes by sea and by la ...uth of the [[River Ness]], which flows out from nearby [[Loch Ness]]. The Ness empties into the Inverness Firth, the south-western extremity of the [[Mora
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• Muckle Flugga
  ...land north of [[Unst]] among the [[Shetland|Shetland Islands]]. Of all the islands of the [[British Isles]], Muckle Flugga is the northernmost apart from the ...still disagreements about where to locate it, on Muckle Flugga or on Lamba Ness. The orders to start the work on the new Muckle Flugga tower were finally g
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• Unst
  |picture=At Toolie. view N with sea mist hugging Herma Ness - geograph.org.uk - 102545.jpg |picture caption=Cliffs at Herma Ness
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• Windermere
  ===Islands=== ...windermere/windermere_outonthelake/windermere-islands.htm|title=Windermere islands|publisher=Lake District National Park}}</ref> By far the largest is the pri
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• Great Britain
  ...the British Isles, estimated at around 59,500,000 excluding its off-shore islands; the most populated island in the world after Java and Honshu. ...rvey map statistic]</ref>. The main islands off the coast are the single islands of [[Anglesey]] and the [[Isle of Wight]], and island groups; the [[Hebride
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• South Ronaldsay
  '''South Ronaldsay''' is one of the islands of [[Orkney]]. It is linked to [[Mainland, Orkney]] by the Churchill Barrie ...and South Ronaldsay are the northernmost and southernmost of the inhabited islands of Orkney.
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• Loch Lomond
  ...Alexandria]] in the south, broadening in the south, where it contains many islands, including [[Inchmurrin]], the largest fresh-water island in the [[British ...t Britain, it is the largest by surface area, and the largest after [[Loch Ness]] by water volume.<ref>[http://www.sepa.org.uk/publications/waterenv/html/5
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• Sula Sgeir
  ...lege in this regard and each year a boat sails the from the wee harbour of Ness out to Sula Sgeir, where the men encamp for a week to a fortnight, catching ...he islands in 1549. His description of Sula Sgeir mentions that the men of Ness sailed in their small craft to "fetche hame thair boatful of dry wild fowls
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• Scotland
  ...lies [[England]]. In addition to the mainland, Scotland includes over 790 islands, of which the largest groups are the [[Hebrides]] spread out from the west ...and : The History, Culture, Folklore and Etymology of 7500 Places in These Islands | publisher=WN | date=| location=| pages=| url=| doi=| isbn=030435385X }}</
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• Stornoway
  ...lation of around 9,000 makes it far and away the largest settlement in the islands, containing a third of their population. The civil parish of Stornoway, inc ...e public transport hub of Lewis, and bus services provides links to Point, Ness, Back and Tolsta, Uig, the West Side, Lochs and [[Tarbert, Harris]]. These
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