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( Ulva ) John Hannavy visits Ulva, a tiny island off the west coast of Mull Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 31 on 16 / 02 / 2007
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Ulva and John
* John MacQuarrie of Ulva
Dean Monro makes no mention of Gometra or Ulva in his 1549 work A Description Of The Western Isles of Scotland but both are referred to briefly by John Monipennie c. 1612, stating of the latter that " about 300 paces from this island, lyeth Gomatra, two miles long and one mile broad ".
Ulva and island
Similar formations are found at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, on the island of Ulva and Ardmeanach on the Isle of Mull.
Boat trips from Oban, Ulva Ferry on Mull, Fionnphort and Iona allow visitors to view caves and the puffins that nest on the island between May and September.
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland.
The mausoleum of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1809 to 1822, may be found in the village of Gruline on the island ( Macquarie had been born on the nearby island of Ulva ).
There are ferry links from Fionnphort on Mull to the neighbouring island of Iona and from Oskamull to Ulva.
Ulva (, ) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, off the west coast of Mull.
Ulva has been populated since the Mesolithic and there are various Neolithic remains on the island.
Numerous well-known individuals have connections with the island including David Livingstone, Samuel Johnson and Walter Scott, who drew inspiration from Ulva for his 1815 poem, Lord of the Isles.
Viewed on a large scale, Ulva and its neighbouring island Gometra appear to be a peninsula of the Isle of Mull, as they are separated from one another by narrow straits.
Caolas Ulbha ( the Sound of Ulva ) at the east of the island is a narrow channel a few hundred metres across to Ulva Ferry on Mull.
Gometra is a tidal island and connected to Ulva by a bridge.
) between Little Colonsay and Ulva, and also Garbh Eilean (" rough island "), Eilean Bàn (" white / fair island "), Eilean an Rìgh (" island of the king "), Eilean na h-Uamh (" island of the cave "), Trealbhan, Sgeir Dhubh, Sgeir Dhubh Bheag, Sgaigean, Bogha Mòr and Eilean Reilean.
There are three main islets in the Sound of Ulva: Eilean Garbh (" rough island "), Eilean a ' Bhuic (" island of the buck ") and Eilean a ' Chaolais (" island of the kyle / straits "), as well as the smaller island of Sgeir Ruadh.
Ulva Island ( from ) is a small island about long lying within Paterson Inlet, which is part of Stewart Island / Rakiura in New Zealand.
Ulva and off
Numerous islands lie off the west coast of Mull, including Erraid, Inch Kenneth, Iona and Ulva.
* Ulva Islands off the coast of Knapdale, Scotland
The island is situated at the entrance of Loch Na Keal, off the west coast of the Isle of Mull, Scotland, to the south-southeast of Ulva.
File: Saddleback 2. JPG | A Tieke on Ulva Island, New Zealand, a island bird sanctuary located off Stewart Island / Rakiura, where a sizable population of South Island Saddlebacks is maintained.
Ulva and west
It lies immediately west of Ulva, to which it is linked by a bridge, and at low tide also by a beach.
It takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to travel by road from the houses on the west of Gometra to the ferry landing stage on Ulva for the crossing to Mull, using a 4x4 vehicle.
Eorsa lies in Loch na Keal on the west coast of the Isle of Mull, to the east of Ulva.
Ulva and coast
Ulva lactuca is very common on rocks and on other algae in the littoral and sublittoral on shores all around the British Isles, the coast of France, the Low Countries and up to Denmark.
Ulva and Mull
Around 60 million years ago, the region was volcanically active, with Ben More on Mull being the remnant of a volcano, and it was in this period that the famous rock formations of Staffa and the basaltic columns of " The Castles " on Ulva came into being.
* Images of archaeological sites in Mull and Ulva, Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester.
Ulva ( centre ) from Mull
fr: Ulva ( Mull )
From the summit on a clear day, the view encompasses the Sound of Mull, Staffa, Ulva, the Ross of Mull and Iona in the distance.
Ulva and Scotland
It was named after Ulva Island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, and was formerly called Coopers Island.
* Ulva, an island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
* New Ulva, on Danna, Scotland, an island in the Inner Hebrides
Ulva and on
A ' Telford church ' on Ulva ( 1827 / 8 ) in the Inner Hebrides
Samuel Johnson and his protege James Boswell visited The MacQuarrie on Ulva in 1773, the year after Banks ' visit.
Perhaps aware that Banks considered that the columnar basalt cliff formations on Ulva called " The Castles " rivalled Staffa's Johnson wrote:
File: 070308 Stewart Island robin on Ulva. jpg | New Zealand Robin ( Petroica australis )
There are a number of islets and rocks to the south and the east of Ulva, notably Eilean na Creiche ( listed as " Eilean na Craoibhe ", on the island's guide's map.
Many structures on Ulva are in ruins, such as the former water mill between Ormaig and Cragaig, and if not in ruins, they have been incorporated into other buildings, e. g. Bracadale Steadings, which includes bits of the old Ulva House which Boswell and Johnson stayed in.
Bradley, or O ' Brolligan ( as his name is sometimes recorded ) was a retired sailor, who took to the roads as a pedlar, and when on Ulva, he was said to live in this cave.
Bridge connecting Gometra on left to Ulva on right
Ulva and 16
* MacKenzie, Donald W. R. As It Was / Sin Mar a Bha: A Ulva Boyhood Birlinn Ltd ( 16 May 2000 ) ISBN 978-1-84158-042-5
Individual blades of Ulva can grow to be more than 400mm ( 16 ") in size, but this only occurs when the plants are growing in sheltered areas.
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