Haskeir

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Haskeir
Scottish Gaelic nameScript error: No such module "Lang".
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Meaning of namePossibly Old Norse for "shields"[1][2]
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Haskeir Island as seen from Rubha Ghriminis, North Uist
Location
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Physical geography
Island groupUist and Barra
AreaTemplate:Cvt
Highest elevationTemplate:Cvt
Administration
Council areaNa h-Eileanan Siar
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Demographics
Population0
Lymphad
References[3][4]
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Haskeir Lighthouse Template:Edit at Wikidata
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Haskeir Lighthouse, and Haskeir Eagach in the distance
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Haskeir (Template:Langx), also known as Great Haskeir (Template:Langx) is a remote, exposed and uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It lies 13 kilometres (7 nautical miles) west-northwest of North Uist. Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.One kilometre (1⁄2 nautical mile) southwest lie the skerries of Haskeir Eagach, made up of a colonnade of five rock stacks, and 40 km (22 nmi) northwest is St Kilda.

Geography, geology and botany

There is no anchorage or shelter and access via the steep rocky cliffs may be difficult, even in calm conditions. There are several natural rock arches and a high cliff on the northern end of the island called Castle Cliff. Various small skerries lie immediately to the north and south. There is very little vegetation save for a few sea-pinks, campion, plantain and orache that can survive the salt spray.[3]

Much of the bedrock is Lewisian gneiss[7]

History

Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang". (meaning 'shields') may have been the Old Norse name for Haskeir.[1][2] Skildar certainly appears on a map by Nicholas de Nicolay from 1583. There are various theories that somehow the transposition of this name to nearby St Kilda may have created the name for this latter archipelago, whose origins are otherwise obscure.[8][9]

There is an active lighthouse on the island constructed in 1997 and operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board, as well as the remains of a bothy, possibly built by fishermen from the Monach Islands.

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b Maclean, Charles (1977) Island on the Edge of the World: the Story of St. Kilda Canongate. Template:ISBN. Page 33.
  2. ^ a b Fleming, Andrew (2005) St. Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island. Windgather Press. Template:ISBN. Page 27. Maclean does not state which island caused the confusion, but Fleming equates 'Skilðir' with Haskeir.
  3. ^ a b Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
  4. ^ Ordnance Survey "Get-a-Map"
  5. ^ Haskeir Lighthouse World of Lighthouses. Retrieved 19 May 2016
  6. ^ Template:Cite rowlett
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Lewisian Gneiss of North Castle, Haskeir:: OS grid NF6182 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!". Geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  8. ^ Quine, David (2000) St Kilda. Grantown-on-Spey. Colin Baxter Island Guides. Template:ISBN. Page 21. Quine, for example, suggests that Skildar was transcribed in error by Lucas J. Waghenaer in his 1592 charts without the trailing r and with a period after the S, creating S.Kilda. This was in turn assumed to stand for a saint by others, creating the form that has been used for several centuries, St Kilda.
  9. ^ de Nicolay, Nicholas (1583) Vraye & exacte description Hydrographique des costes maritimes d'Escosse & des Isles Orchades Hebrides avec partie d'Angleterre & d'Irlande servant a la navigation.[permanent dead link] Edinburgh. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 22 December 2007.

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