North Uist is connected by causeways to Benbecula via Grimsay, to Berneray, and to Baleshare.

Caledonian MacBrayne ferries sail from the village to Uig on Skye, as well as from the island of Berneray ( which is connected to North Uist by road causeway ), to Leverburgh in Harris.

Berneray () is an island and community in the Sound of Harris, Scotland.

There is strong evidence that points to Berneray being inhabited since the Bronze Age, and possibly before.

The name " Berneray " is from the Old Norse and means " Bjorn's island ".

A key feature of Berneray is its machair.

The youth hostel on Berneray is part of the Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust.

There is little doubt that early Christianity influenced Mingulay ( for example the nearby islands of Pabbay and Berneray both have cross-inscribed slabs ) but no direct evidence has yet been found.

From circa 871 onwards Viking raids on the Outer Hebrides gathered pace but similarly the Viking graves found on Berneray and Vatersay are not replicated on Mingulay and whilst there are no definite indications of Norse settlement, their presence on the island is confirmed by the many features they named.

Castlebay is in the foreground, with Vatersay, Sandray, Pabbay, Barra, Scotland | Pabbay, Mingulay and Barra Head | Berneray beyond.

Barra Head, also known as Berneray ( Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh ), is the southernmost of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

Originally, Barra Head only referred to the southernmost headland of Berneray but is now a common name for the entire island.

The derivation of the modern name is straightforward, the Old Norse name meaning " Bjorn's island " becoming Beàrnaraigh in Gaelic and then " Berneray " as an angilicisation.

The former refers to Barra Head the southernmost promontory of the island and the latter name is a reference to the " Bishop's Isles " an alternative name for the " Barra Isles ", of which archipelago Berneray is a member.

" Barra Head " alone is an English language alternative to Berneray for the island name.

Traditionally this island was known by Gaelic speakers as Beàrnaraigh na Hearadh, meaning " Berneray of Harris " to distinguish it from Beàrnaraigh Cheann Bharraigh, literally " Berneray of Barra Head " and now usually known in English as simply Barra Head.

* Barra Head, the southernmost isle of the Outer Hebrides ( also known as Berneray )

Berneray ( also known as Barra Head ), Pabbay, Sandray and Mingulay have been inhabited in the past.

* Angus MacAskill, the strongest man to have ever lived-born in Berneray and briefly lived in Stornoway before emigrating to Canada

MacAskill was born on the Isle of Berneray in the Sound of Harris, Scotland.

* The National Trust for Scotland-Mingulay, Berneray & Pabbay.

The cliffs provide nesting sites for seabirds in such profusion that Berneray has been designated as a Special Protection Area.

The grazing rights for the remainder are leased to the crofters of the nearby island of Berneray.

Great Bernera and Scalpay have bridge connections to Lewis and Harris respectively, with causeways linking Baleshare and Berneray to North Uist, Eriskay to South Uist, Flodaigh, Fraoch-eilean and the southern Grimsay to Benbecula, and Vatersay to Barra.

A Cal Mac ferry service links Leverburgh with Berneray, connected to North Uist by a causeway.

The new streets were all named after Scottish islands ( Berneray, Birsay, Castlebay, Cathay, Egilsay, Longay, Mingulay, Ornsay, Raasay, Ronaldsay, Scalpay, Scaraway, Shilay, Skerray, Stornoway, Torogay, Vallay and Westray ) and housing styles varied between gray stone apartment houses with back and front door, pre-fabricated apartment housing with brown or white cladding, and 4 storey flats – some with open verandas that usually housed 8 dwellings.

The main islands include Barra, Benbecula, Berneray, Harris, Lewis, North Uist, South Uist, and St Kilda.

Ferry services from the islands of Berneray ( linked by causeway to North Uist ) and Eriskay ( linked to South Uist ) connect to the other Outer Hebridean islands of Harris and Barra respectively.

Inhabitants from the island of Berneray retaliated against this, forcing the Morrisons to retreat to a rock where they were executed.

With an area of 10. 1 square kilometres ( 2496 acres ), Berneray rises to a height of 305 feet ( 93 m ) at Beinn Shlèibhe ( Moor Hill ) and 278 feet ( 85 m ) at Borve Hill.

More recently Gaelic speakers have also used Beàrnaraigh Uibhist, i. e. " Berneray of Uist " to refer to the northern Berneray.

As of 20 October 2006, the permanent resident population of Berneray stood at 130.

Most people on Berneray speak Scottish Gaelic, many as a first language.

Broadband internet provision became available in January 2006, giving an incentive to people wishing to relocate to Berneray and helping sustain the population and community.

Berneray has a particularly fine machair, a result of careful husbandry by the island ’ s crofters, helped by the absence of rabbits.

The crofting practises also encourage a wide array of wildlife on Berneray.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

In his stead is a milquetoast version known as `` the corporation ''.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

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The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

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First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

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It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.