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Eilean Chathastail
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| Eilean Chathastail shown within Lochaber | |
| OS grid reference | NM485835 |
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| Gaelic name | Eilean Chathastail |
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| Area | 26 hectares (0.1 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 35 metres (115 ft) |
| Population | |
| Population | 0 |
| Groupings | |
| Island group | Small Isles |
| Local Authority | Argyll and Bute |
| References | [1] |
| If shown, area and population ranks are for all Scottish islands and all inhabited Scottish islands respectively. Population data is from 2001 census. | |
Eilean Chathastail (Eng: Castle Island[1]) is one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
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Eilean Chathastail protects the only harbour on Eigg at Galmisdale. It is roughly 1 kilometre (1,100 yd) in length and lies only 100 metres (110 yd) off the south-east coast of the island of Eigg. Eigg lighthouse was built on the island in 1906 by brothers David A. and Charles Alexander Stevenson.
In July 1884 the geologist and writer Hugh Miller arrived at the Eilean Chathastail anchorage on board the yacht Betsey. He had just begun his journey at Tobermory and he produced a diary of his travels in the Hebrides for the newspaper Witness, of which he was the editor. His contributions were later collated and published as The Cruise of the Betsey in 1856.[2]
He wrote that: "We passed the Isle of Muck, with its one low hill; saw the pyramidal mountains of Rum looming tall in the offing; and then, running along the Isle of Eigg, with its colossal Scuir rising between us and the sky, as if it were a piece of Babylonian wall, or the great wall of China, only vastly larger, set down on the ridge of a mountain, we entered the channel which separates the isle from one of its dependencies, Eilean Chathastail, and cast anchor in the tideway."[3]
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