Grid reference NM3997
near to Kinloch, Rum, Scotland
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Cnapan Breaca
The small bealach is virtually devoid of vegetation, probably because of the prevailing wind.
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Hillside towards Cnapan Breaca |
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Isle of Rum
by Ashley Dace
A general look across the island. Rum originally comes from 'wide island'
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Vanishing Lochan
by Anne Burgess
This lochan is steadily diminishing in size as vegetation encroaches on it, leaving only this small area of open water. The ridge in the distance is Orval.
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The 'shearwater hut' on the slopes of Hallival
by Nick Smith
The tiny little box to the bottom left of the picture is the hut used by people who spend the night on Hallival to see the Manx Shearwater colony. The photo was taken in 1976 and I was surprised to see it is marked on the map. It may well... (more)
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Cnapan Breaca
by David Brown
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Northern Marginal Zone
by Ashley Dace
A view across the NMZ. On the opposite side of the valley is an outcrop of sandstones/brecchias. The fact that these sandstones were most likely deposited in water suggests a lake in the caldera at some point.
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Erratic with a View
by Anne Burgess
The orange boulder is an erratic dropped by a glacier during the last Ice Age. It is of peridotite, a type of rock which is very common elsewhere on the Isle of Rùm, and it is sitting on a ridge of pale rhyodacite. The view is towards the... (more)
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Mountain hut on the slopes of Hallival
by Nick Smith
This tiny hut is the 'shearwater hut' used by people who went to observe the Manx Shearwater colony. The photo was taken in 1976, I was surprised to see it marked on the map but it may have been enlarged or modernised. The hut can... (more)
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The View from Cnapan Breaca
by Anne Burgess
It looks quite a long way down, but the rocky hump in the middle distance is only a few metres lower than Cnapan Breaca. I can, however, vouch for it being a long haul up! In the distance is the mainland, with showers developing over Glenelg.
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On the slopes of Hallival
by Nick Smith
The island of Eigg can be seen in the background. Taken on the Schools Hebridean Society visit to Rum, we were on our way to the 'shearwater hut' shown here Link
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Cnapan Breaca
by Ashley Dace
The rocks in the foreground change from gabbro to gabbro breccian to porphyritic rhyolite.
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