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Quiraing, Trotternish Peninsula of Skye

Ian Cylkowski

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Bill Brandt. Loch Fada, Trotternish, Skye. November, 1947

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Scotland's pristine Isle of Skye is expecting 1,000,000 visitors this year. Conservationists wonder if the island can handle such volume.

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One from my trip to Scotland earlier this year with a drive up the Quiraing on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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From an awesome morning up on the Trotternish Ridge back in October.

📸 by Nick Hanson

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Trotternish Peninsula, UK

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The Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland

We’re at the Old Man of Storr, the giant rocky pinnacle which towers over Britain’s longest continuous area of landslides. The Trotternish Ridge stretches roughly 30 kilometres along the north of Skye, the largest island of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, and includes many weird and wonderful rock formations, courtesy of an ancient landslip.

Lava flows, glaciers and the weather all played their part in carving this fantastical landscape, often seen swirling in mist. The famous “Old Man” is found in a section known as The Sanctuary, to the right of the cliffs of The Storr, the highest point on the ridge. Towering about 50 metres from base to peak, the Old Man is joined by other large rock stacks, left behind when huge blocks of lava slipped down into weaknesses in the underlying Jurassic rocks.

You can enjoy the fantastic rocky architecture of The Storr from a distance, as it can be seen for kilometres around, but those who make the journey up there will be rewarded with far-reaching views to the islands of Raasay and Rona or to Portree and the Cuillin Hills. A memorable spot to toast Scotland’s patron saint with a dram of single malt whisky.

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Good Morning from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Cloud inversion at dawn, Trotternish Ridge.

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Trotternish Ridge in Mist, Isle of Skye, Scotland

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The Quiraing "Is a landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland."

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We're going to Quiraing for this day, The Quiraing (Scottish Gaelic: Cuith-Raing)[1] is a landform on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish escarpment on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. It takes the form of a craterous hollow surrounded by a high rampart of rock.[2] Within the hollow is a raised plateau the size of a football field, known as the Table. Other distinctive features of the landscape are the Needle, a jagged pinnacle rising to 120 feet (37 m), and the Prison, a mass of rock resembling a medieval keep

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i haven’t found this answer anywhere so i thought you would be a good source, but would places like argyll and bute that were recently still gaelic speaking still be considered part of the gàidhealtachd or is it only places that are >50% gaelic speaking in the modern day?

So the term Gàidhealtachd in modern Scottish Gaelic has no official definition, as it does in Irish, and it can be used both as a description of those places that are still Gaelic-speaking to a higher degree (i.e. the outer Hebrides, Trotternish in Skye, Tiree, and northern Islay - maybe somewhere like Gearrloch in northern Ross, or Acheracle, still counts in a generous estimate, which still has the oldest generation and some younger folk). The other use is to use it as an estimate of the traditional Gaelic-speaking region, for hundreds of years before the plantations and the Clearances - in other words, the Highlands and Islands, from Cowal in the South to Caithness in the North, and from Perth in the East to St. Kilda in the West. You hear both in day-to-day use.

I prefer to use the second definition casually - to me, it's a land claim, it's saying that all this land is ours by right, and it was stolen from us by lowlanders to be settled under brutal and genocidal circumstances, which is true of that whole region, not just the bits where Gaels cling on still today.

However, when discussing languge policy and the (promised, but probably not forthcoming - you see, giving specific rights and support to support the specific and unique needs of Gaelic communities in the islands is 'discrimination' against people like me who speak it in other places, according to the bunch of fucking morons who apparently run Gaelic policy in Scotland) establishment of a recognized, legal Gàidhealtachd, I recognise that the actually existing linguistic situation on the ground is what needs to be taken into account, and therefore support something like the first list I gave there.

Perhaps it would also be good to have a strategy that is different from that for places, like Argyll, that within living memory were majority Gaelic-speaking, as their needs clearly are different from the remaining Gàidhealtachd as well as the diaspora concentrated in Glasgow, but I am not holding my breath. Again, we can't even seem to get recognition of the distinct situation and needs of the Gaelic-speaking islands, getting recognition for those parts of the Gàidhealtachd that lost the language and culture through great violence seems even more far-off

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 “Trotternish Ridge ”

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Charles is enjoying The Old Man of Storr on the Trotternish Ridge is probably the most famous walk, and the busiest attraction, on the Isle of Skye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

His body transformation 🏋️ Big muscles are not necessarily better 😳

The Old Man (Bodach an Stòr in Gaelic), is a 55-metre-high pinnacle of basalt rock which is all that remains of a 2,800-million-year-old volcanic plug.

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Posted 31st August 2024

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From a rather nice sunrise up on the Trotternish Ridge, just as the sun popped over the horizon.

Isle of Skye, Scotland

📸 by @nickhansonphotography

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