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Sula Sgeir, Ross-shire

Sula Sgeir Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited, inhospitable island in the North Atlantic, forty miles north of the closest inhabited land; the northernmost headland of Isle of Lewis. This, one of the most remote of the British Isles, belongs to Ross-shire. It best known for its population of gannets, and its name is from the Old Norse for "gannet skerry". The men of the Hebrides have visited Sula Sgeir since time immemorial, as they do today, for the annual guga harvest; the collection of young gannets for the pot. A ruined stone bothy stands on the island still, where the Lewis men stay for the week-long harvest. (Read more)