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Scalpay, Outer Hebrides, the Glossary

Scalpay (Sgalpaigh or Sgalpaigh na Hearadh; i.e. "Scalpay of Harris" to distinguish it from Scalpay off Skye) is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.^[1]

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Islands off Lewis and Harris

Ailein duinn

"Ailein duinn" ("Dark-haired Alan") is a traditional Scottish Gaelic song for solo female voice, a lament that was written for Ailean Moireasdan ("Alan Morrison") by his fiancée, Annag Chaimbeul ("Annie Campbell").

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Amphibolite

Amphibolite is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no quartz.

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Archean

The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan), in older sources sometimes called the Archaeozoic, is the second of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.

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Battle of Culloden

The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III.

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Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

paren) is the local government council for Na h-Eileanan Siar (the Outer Hebrides) council area of Scotland. It is based in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis.

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Development trust

Development trusts are organisations operating in the United Kingdom that are.

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Dike (geology)

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

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Eilean Glas, Scalpay

Eilean Glas is a peninsula of Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Fish farming

Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.

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Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)

The Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) (abbreviation: FC(C), Scottish Gaelic: An Eaglais Shaor Leantainneach) is a Scottish Presbyterian denomination which was formed in January 2000.

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Free Church of Scotland (since 1900)

The Free Church of Scotland (An Eaglais Shaor) is a conservative evangelical Calvinist denomination in Scotland.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.

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Harris, Outer Hebrides

Harris (Na Hearadh) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Isle of Skye

The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Lewis and Harris

Lewis and Harris (Leòdhas agus Na Hearadh, Lewis an Harris), or Lewis with Harris, is a Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides, around from the Scottish mainland.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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List of islands of Scotland

This is a list of islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain.

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Loch

Loch is a word meaning "lake" or "sea inlet" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English.

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Marco Secchi

Marco Secchi is an Italian photographer and photo journalist.

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Mylonite

Mylonite is a fine-grained, compact metamorphic rock produced by dynamic recrystallization of the constituent minerals resulting in a reduction of the grain size of the rock.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Peat

Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.

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Prawn

Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (members of the order of decapods), some of which are edible.

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Precentor

A precentor is a person who helps facilitate worship.

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Scalpay, Inner Hebrides

Scalpay (Sgalpaigh) is an inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland which has a population of 4.

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Stornoway Gazette

The Stornoway Gazette is a local newspaper reporting on local issues in the Western Isles of Scotland, specifically Stornoway and the Outer Hebrides.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.

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The Press and Journal

The Press and Journal is a daily regional newspaper serving northern and Highland Scotland including the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness.

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Tholeiitic magma series

The tholeiitic magma series is one of two main magma series in subalkaline igneous rocks, the other being the calc-alkaline series.

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Ultramafic rock

Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalpay,_Outer_Hebrides

Also known as Scalpaigh, Scalpay (Outer Hebrides), Sgalpaigh na Hearad, Sgalpaigh, Outer Hebrides.