Coll shown within Argyll

Coll is a small island (about 21 km long and 5 km wide) in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, west of Mull. It has a population of less than 200. The island has a small village, Arinagour, from which ferries sail to Scarinish on Tiree and to Oban on the mainland.(sometimes it takes along time (12 hours) as it is often to windy to dock in coll in the winter.) Image File history File links Coll. ... Image File history File links Coll. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... The Hebrides (Inner Hebrides in red) The Inner Hebrides are a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. ... Tobermory with 700 people, the largest settlement on Mull, is home to the only whisky distillery on the island. ... The Pride of Rotterdam, One of the P&O Ferriess Flagships operating the Hull-Rotterdam Route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Scarinish is the main village on the island of Tiree, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. ... Tiree shown within Argyll Tiree is an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides south west of Coll. ... View of Oban from Druim Mor. ...

Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for two castles, both named Breachacha Castle. The older dates from the fifteenth century. The Beach in Calella, Spain. ... This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ... Binomial name Crex crex (Linnaeus, 1758) The Corn Crake (Crex crex) is a small bird in the family Rallidae. ... For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...

Coll was home to a branch of the Clan MacLean for 500 years, not all of which were peaceful. In 1590 the MacLeans of Duart invaded their cousins on Coll with the intention of taking the island for themselves. A battle was fought at Breachacha Castle where the Coll clan overwhelmed the Duarts and chopped off their heads and threw them in the stream which is still known as ‘the stream of the heads’. The Macleans of Coll retained their baronial fief and Castle of Breachacha until 1848 when Alexander Maclean of Coll emigrated to Natal where he died unmarried. Clan MacLean Crest: Virtue Mine Honour. ... 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... KwaZulu-Natal, often referred to as KZN, is a province of South Africa. ...

The population of Coll was much higher in the past; in the late 1700s there were about 1,000 people supported by agriculture and fishing. During the Highland Clearances of the 1830s and 1840s, most of the population left, many of them moving to Australia, Canada or South Africa. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria... // Events and Trends Technology First use of general anesthesia in an operation, by Crawford Long The first electrical telegraph sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844 from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.. War, peace and politics First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February...

Traigh Feall (Feall Beach), Isle of Coll

• There is an extensive RSPB reserve towards the west end of the island this is because of the rare corncrake that lives almost exclusivly in this area. it is able to live on the island as the farmers there farm their land from the middle outwards leaving the birds enough time to move and live in the edges of the feild.

• Coll is also home to Project Trust, a gap year organisation that sends school leavers abroad for a year's voluntary work, they send 17-19 year olds on a whole year abroad, and have extensive selection and training weeks.

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