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The larger islands have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times, were influenced by the emergence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from 500 AD and then absorbed into the emerging Kingdom of Alba under Kenneth MacAlpin.

They experienced Norse incursions during the early Middle Ages and then became part of the Kingdom of Scotland in the 13th century.

There is a diversity of wildlife, including three species of rare endemic tree.