Английская Википедия:Gunna, Scotland

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox Scottish island Gunna (Gaelic: Gunnaigh) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

Geography and geology

Gunna lies between Coll and Tiree, closer to Coll. It is Шаблон:Convert in area and Шаблон:Convert at its highest point. Nowhere is it wider than Шаблон:Convert. It has no permanent inhabitants; the only house is used as a holiday residence by its owner, Marcus de Ferranti.[1]

It is surrounded by various smaller islands including Eilean Frachlan (just off the north coast), Eilean nan Gamhna off the south coast, Soy Gunna to the north east, and Eilean Bhoramull, which is nearer Coll. It is surrounded by many rocks, especially in Gunna Sound (Scottish Gaelic: Am Bun Dubh[2]), between it and Tiree.

According to Haswell-Smith, the island has a: "bedrock of paragneiss schist with a light sandy soil. Metasediments in the west grade into undifferentiated gneiss in the east".[3]

Etymology and history

"Gunni" is a Norse forename, and Haswell-Smith suggests that Gunni-øy means "island of Gunni the Dane" (although it is not recorded for which Gunni the island was named) or conceivably that the modern name is from Eilean nan Gamhna, Gaelic for "island of the stirks". Mac an Tàilleir suggests that the Norse means "Gunnar (hard R)'s island".[4]

It was possibly an anchorite/culdee's island at some point – beside the old well, there is Port na Cille, which means Port of the Monk's Cell. Uamh Mòr, (big cave) on the north coast, could well be where the hermit sheltered.

According to Mac an Tàilleir Gunna is mentioned in the lines of a song, "Farewell beyond Gunna to Mull of the great mountains".[4]

Wildlife

Gunna supports a wide range of sea birds, as well as geese, and shelducks. Grey seals also breed there.

It is currently used for grazing from Coll.[3]

Gunna in fiction

Sandy Duncanson, the villain of Neil Munro's novel The New Road, comes from here, one chapter is titled "The Man from Gunna". It is suggested that this symbolises his ambiguous nature, since Tiree was "one of Mac Cailean Mór's loyal islands", and Coll was wild country.

See also

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References

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External links

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