Dubh Artach is a remote skerry off the west coast of Scotland. The skerry lies 30 kilometres west of Colonsay at Grid reference NM120028. A skerry is a small, rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... Colonsay shown within Argyll Colonsay is an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...

A lighthouse designed by Thomas Stevenson was erected in 1872. The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... Thomas Stevenson, 1880 Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. ...

Dubh Artach used to be known as Dhuheartach and there is no consensus on the root of the name although it is of Old Irish origin. Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be more or less fully reconstructed from extant sources. ...