| 单词 | Hebrides |
| 例句 | Perhaps they were like the modem ones, which say that Still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The wizard clan MacFusty, who have dwelled in the Hebrides for centuries, have traditionally taken responsibility for the management of their native dragons. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Another example of a correlation mistaken for a cause: In the New Hebrides Islands, body lice were considered a cause of good health. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Malin Hebrides, northwest seven to severe gale nine, deepening low moving north- east, rain, becoming variable . The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late 1940s, Barnhill, a stout, white-washed house, on the Scottish island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides, was exactly what George Orwell was looking for: a remote retreat unreachable by vehicle. A tour of Orwell’s Jura, where he wrote 1984 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Staff at the nearby Lionacleit library, meanwhile, have ensured that books will be transported by mail, bus, aeroplane and ferry to the furthest reaches of the Outer Hebrides. World Book Night 2013 set to give away 500,000 books 2013-04-22T14:03:30Z The basic premise is that Monty and his telegenic black labrador Rubes will spend six months in the Hebrides working as a volunteer nature warden. Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape and Three in a Bed 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z Islay, known as the “Queen of the Hebrides,” is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, accessible by ferry and plane. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The sharks were what drew me, my family and some friends to a small island in the Inner Hebrides. The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and excerpts from Beethoven's Prometheus were directed from the leader's chair by violinist Alexander Janiczek, a bold and vivacious musician. SCO/Piotr Anderszewski/Alexander Janiczek ? review 2010-10-24T21:31:00Z Alex Guttenplan Basalt forms the distinctive columnar strata of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland and the similar structures found on which island in the Inner Hebrides, the location of Fingal's Cave? University Challenge | TV Review 2010-04-06T05:45:00Z The film was a five-year slog for Day, a Scot who quit his job as a lawyer, bought a camera with his savings and sailed to the Outer Hebrides to capture Scotland’s last guga hunt. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The book tells of a family, very much like Woolf’s own, vacationing at their summer home by the sea in the Scottish Hebrides. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z The road to west Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, starting with the A858 in Carloway and passing near the standing stones at Calanais, is probably the longest dead-end in Britain. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The Hebrides contributed a fantastically atmospheric account of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire: soprano Lucy Shelton was captivating as she growled and croaked, shrieked and swooped through the eerie moonlit cabaret. The New Century – review 2012-06-01T16:11:15Z Before hitting the European continent, I made a pit stop at the Isle of Lewis, one of the northernmost islands in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z He acted more like an official from the Scottish tourist board, doing his best to sell the Hebrides as a tourist destination, by filming beautiful panoramic landscapes and cuddly seals. Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape and Three in a Bed 2010-04-21T23:05:00Z Throughout we are regaled with detailed information about the inhabitants and customs of Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji and the New Hebrides. Michael Dirda takes a new look at a little-known Jules Verne novel 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And I felt it last summer in the Hebrides, kayaking with basking sharks. The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Then there was “The Wicker Man,” a tale of cultish killings in the Hebrides that has itself become a cult. Postscript: Christopher Lee 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He goes sailing – Coast! – in the mist, accompanied by The Hebrides by Mendelssohn of course. Town with Nicholas Crane; Love and Death in City Hall – TV review 2013-05-22T06:00:16Z A young stag in Hebrides: Islands on the Edge. TV highlights 18/07/2013 2013-07-18T06:00:18Z The newly formed Harris Tweed Hebrides company based at Shawbost began targeting fashion shows, trade fairs and retailers. Harris tweed returns to global boutiques after islands' renaissance 2012-11-09T16:45:33Z Like the stones of so many very old structures throughout the Hebrides, they would tell a dramatic tale. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The New York lunch was to help launch a new website, Need for Tweed, a collaboration between Harris Tweed Hebrides, a major producer of Harris tweed, and the Chicago-based Leo Burnett advertising agency. CIA agent Tony Mendez: 'If you were tracking Iran, you had Harris tweed' 2013-04-09T15:37:44Z In this first episode of the new run, Mears visits Mull, hoping to meet the creatures dwelling in and around the waters of the Inner Hebrides. TV highlights 04/01/2013 2013-01-03T20:00:01Z In 1900, a routine visit by a supply ship to the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides found the three keepers missing, with no evidence as to what had happened to them. The Lighthouse – review 2012-10-12T17:10:14Z They would return to the South Pacific and film what even today is riveting footage of cannibalistic and headhunting cultures, including their capture by the Big Namba tribe of Malekula Island in the New Hebrides. Frugal Traveler: In Kansas, Museums, Fried Chicken and, Yes, ‘Oz’ 2013-08-07T18:58:00Z The Hebrides Overture, with which Marriner opened, was efficiently played, but phrasing was rather foursquare, orchestral balance was elusive, and there was little of the poetic exhilaration that animates the piece. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z The film itself was shot on the Uist islands, in the Outer Hebrides, the first feature to be made there. On a Scottish isle, ‘Limbo’ breaks the refugee movie mold 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z He also, rather oddly, launches us onto the "sea roads" of the Outer Hebrides for two long waterborne chapters. 'The Old Ways': Walking as a way of 'feeling, knowing and being' 2012-10-28T14:01:04Z As well as the stunning coastal landscape and beaches, there is an abundance of bird life in the Outer Hebrides. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z A new interactive map and graphs allows the public to see which area has the highlight number of happy residents, with Rutland and the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland topping the list. Grayling's rehabilitation speech and Clegg taking DPMQs: Politics live blog 2012-11-20T16:11:00Z "I would like to take the swan across to the Hebrides," Sinclair says. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z Another blood drinker favors fine cashmere and sports “exquisitely crafted brown leather sandals” despite living on “a craggy green island in the Outer Hebrides.” Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire We could maybe use you on Wake Up, Hebrides or something, but for the big league, we need someone like you but younger. David Miliband's TV future: Strictly ? something 2011-01-09T21:00:01Z He is formal and not very cuddly, as several friends put it, but when he discusses his favorite subjects — great novels, the Hebrides — he glows with almost adolescent joy. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Harris tweed, produced in the Outer Hebrides, is enjoying a revival after a long period of decline. CIA agent Tony Mendez: 'If you were tracking Iran, you had Harris tweed' 2013-04-09T15:37:44Z Tiree, the most westerly of the Inner Hebrides, is extremely flat and unreasonably windy. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z A folk singer from the Outer Hebrides, who lives in the Scottish Highlands, was called up by Disney/Pixar to sing on the soundtrack for an animated film, set in 10th century Scotland. AUDIO: Disney call on Scottish folk singer 2012-08-14T07:31:25Z It was a nighttime sail to Oban, a resort town on Scotland’s west coast and home to CalMac’s busiest port of call, a distinction that earned it the moniker “Gateway to the Hebrides.” In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Maxwell Davies suggests that each musician sits inside a giant birdcage, but this powerful performance from baritone Marcus Farnsworth and the Hebrides Ensemble found a simpler staging solution. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-11-13T19:00:06Z I highly recommend incorporating Islay into any visit to the Inner Hebrides, not only for the distilleries and history but also for the epic seafood platter at the Lochindaal Hotel pub. In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Poised richness in the cellos and basses opened Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” overture. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z “We want to take the marginalized, and the politically repressed voices from the periphery,” he says, “from what we might call the Outer Hebrides of the literary scenes, and bring them center stage.” Edward St. Aubyn’s ‘Lost for Words’ 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z To her predecessors, she notes, “the Hebrides offered … an unusual degree of personal freedom from convention and class.” Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Howard, who had homes in London and the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, was named a Commander of the British Empire in 1998. Alan Howard, Actor With Royal Shakespeare Company, Dies at 77 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Words from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” are fittingly evocative: “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,/Boils round the naked, melancholy isles/Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge/Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.” In Scotland, a ferry-borne exploration of the Inner Hebrides 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The programme ended with Ernö Dohnányi's feisty Serenade Op 10, a piece so full-blooded it might have been written for five times as many players, and which the Hebrides's trio attacked with refined gusto. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-06-15T12:58:16Z Frequent sailings allow passengers to explore the Inner Hebrides and the far-flung Western Isles, with some voyages taking in several islands at a time. Travels with locals: 10 great public transport rides 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Little wonder that Mendelssohn himself, on a trip to Mull, Iona and Staffa, was inspired to write the Hebrides Overture. Scotland's best classical music festivals 2012-05-25T21:45:07Z What is known about the chessmen is that they were found by a farmer on the Isle of Lewis, the largest island of the Outer Hebrides, in 1831. Art Review: ?The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,? at the Cloisters 2011-11-17T23:25:24Z The evening opened with a dark, vibrant account of “The Hebrides,” Mendelssohn’s concert overture. Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z From 1906 until independence in 1980 these islands were jointly administered by Britain and France as the New Hebrides, so colonial relics remain – Winston Churchill Avenue runs into rue du Général de Gaulle. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Three years at sea turned the drink black and created a salty flavor expected from distilleries in the Scottish Hebrides — not the landlocked state of Kentucky. | New Spirits with Split Personalities 2014-03-26T17:33:20Z I Google “abandoned croft, Hebrides” regularly and spent months researching noise-cancelling headphones. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The contract for Clyde and Hebrides ferry services could be awarded to current operators CalMac without a competitive tendering process. CalMac could win ferries contract without tender 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Experts are due to begin assessing the condition of the A83 after seven landslips blocked the vital road to Argyll and the Inner Hebrides. Work due to begin after seven landslips close A83 in Argyll 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z A yellow "be aware" warning for heavy rain also covers most of mainland Scotland, as well as Skye and the Inner Hebrides. Trains suspended in 'do not travel' weather warning for Scotland 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z A yellow "be aware" warning for heavy and persistent rain is also in place for almost all of mainland Scotland, as well as Skye and the Inner Hebrides. Travel warning after amber alert for heavy rain in parts of Scotland 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z The remote archipelago of eight small uninhabited islands is located in the Inner Hebrides west of Mull. Treshnish Isles given protection of National Trust for Scotland 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z A music festival in the Inner Hebrides has been cancelled the day before events were due to begin as a result of "extreme weather". Tiree music festival cancelled day before over 'extreme weather' 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z But Stockan said Orkney gets less support from the Scottish government than other island communities in Shetland or the Hebrides, and is desperately in need of new ferries to keep its many islands connected. Feeling neglected by Scotland, some in the Orkney Islands mull rejoining Norway 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z An army veteran trying to set a world record for the number of days living on the Outer Hebrides islet of Rockall is being rescued by the coastguard. Coastguard rescue for Army veteran in Rockall record attempt 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Ticket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides ferry networks will be held at current levels from October until March 2024. Ferry fare freeze for some island communities extended 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z The marine environment around the Treshnish Isles is also part of the Sea of the Hebrides Marine Protected Area due to the presence of basking sharks and minke whales. Treshnish Isles given protection of National Trust for Scotland 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Calmac, which is wholly owned by Scottish ministers, provides ferry services to the 22 islands and four peninsulas on the Clyde and Hebrides. Ferry changes needed to end 'blame-shifting culture' 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The Ness remains at "moderate" scarcity, the second highest level, and is joined by the Inner Hebrides, parts of the central belt, and the whole of the south west. All of Scotland now facing water scarcity 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Parts of central Scotland, the Inner Hebrides and Ness area of the Highlands are also at that same moderate scarcity level. Warning Scotland faces threat of water shortages 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Rum, the largest of the Small Isles in the inner Hebrides, is mostly owned by Nature Scot and has a population of about 40 in its off-grid community 30 miles from the mainland. Green minister Lorna Slater's private ferry charter cost £1,200 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z About 1.3 million vehicles travel the route every year and it acts as an important transport link for mainland Argyll as well as the Inner Hebrides. Rest and Be Thankful: Tunnel plan to protect vehicles from landslips 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Trump’s mother, Mary, was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides before emigrating to the United States. Donald Trump travels to Scotland to open golf course 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Among the latest additions were seven birds caught in the Outer Hebrides and then transported and released. The highs and lows of the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z For the islands of Coll and Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, the switch from the winter timetable to the summer one and its more frequent sailings has been delayed by a month. Anger grows at latest CalMac ferry disruption 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The Inner Hebrides' MV Clansman and Islay's MV Hebridean Isles are also out of action due to technical problems. Challenging two years ahead for ferry services - CalMac 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z A walrus has been spotted off Mull in the Inner Hebrides. Massive walrus spotted in the Inner Hebrides 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z He added: "The Scottish government has invested more than £2bn in our ferry services since 2007 and we continue to work towards introducing more capacity and greater resilience on the Clyde and Hebrides network." CalMac ferry payouts rise sharply amid service disruption 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Ticket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides ferry networks will be held at current levels from April until the end of September. Ferry fares frozen for six months to help remote communities 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Others are planned in Sutherland in the Highlands and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. Can the UK's race to space take off? 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The artist, who was born in Germany and raised in Ayrshire, came across collodion glass plate photography while working at museums in Dumfries and the Hebrides. The photographer using a Victorian process to picture Scotland 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The Isle of Raasay lies off the West coast of Scotland in the Inner Hebrides, and is rooted in centuries of illicit distilling. In pictures: Scotland's amazing Christmas trees 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Roughly that means “bad taste,” though Marguerite insists that no English translation will do, just as no other wool measures up to the wool in the tweeds of the Outer Hebrides. Review | ‘The English Understand Wool’ is a little gift to Helen DeWitt fans 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Tiree, the most westerly of the Inner Hebrides, is one of the sunniest places in the UK, according to VisitScotland and dubbed Scotland's sunshine island by travel writers, external. Tiree drenched by more than month's worth of rain 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z A body has been found during the search for a man who went missing after leaving his yacht in a dinghy in the Inner Hebrides. Body found in search for Andy Samuel missing in dinghy 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z CalMac said engineers were assessing the extent of the damage to the MV Hebrides. Uist left with no ferry service after MV Hebrides hits pier 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z With its white sandy beaches, rugged hillsides and turquoise sea, the outer Hebrides looks like an idyllic place to live. Hebrides: Life on beautiful islands with the UK's worst fuel poverty 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The birds have been transported from the Outer Hebrides and released at secret locations. Watch a golden eagle being released into the wild 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z I have an unapologetic obsession with ferries, which I indulged last fall on an island-hopping jaunt through Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. The unsung treasures of Staten Island 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z With four new families recently arriving, the remote and rainy island in the Hebrides is experiencing its version of a population surge, although residents new and old concede living here isn’t easy. As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Transport Scotland said the MV Hebrides was an operational matter for CalMac. Uist left with no ferry service after MV Hebrides hits pier 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Two orcas from the Hebrides were spotted near the Minnack Theatre in Cornwall, in the most southerly sighting of the west coast community in more than 50 years. Marine wildlife warning as UK whale sightings rise 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z A family that fled the violence in Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power is building a new life in the Outer Hebrides. The Afghans building a new life in the Hebrides 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z After handcycling across to the west of the country, he will visit Arran before cycling up the west coast to the Outer Hebrides. Hand cycling has given me my freedom back 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Life on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides is not for everyone. As Its Population Soars to 40, Rum Isle Glimpses a Future in the Mist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z The MV Hebrides situation is the latest in a series of disruptions affecting CalMac's west coast network, many due to its ageing fleet and delays to the delivery of new boats. Uist left with no ferry service after MV Hebrides hits pier 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z According to BGS, most Scottish earthquakes occur in western Scotland with events felt in places such as Islay in the Inner Hebrides and also Fort William and, in November last year, in Glen Coe. Scotland hit by second earthquake in a week with Highland tremor 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z "We have one lady in her 80s, from the Outer Hebrides, who started singing lessons with a teacher in Manchester." Why taking up an instrument has struck a chord for so many 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In 2016, a rocket fired from the Hebrides Rocket Range, a military missile test site in the Western Isles, became the first vehicle to be launched into space from UK soil. How green is Scotland's space industry? 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z CalMac runs more than 30 boats to over 50 ports and harbours, which are located in the Western Isles, Inner Hebrides, Highlands, Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute. Ferry passengers avoiding masks despite Covid surge 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night, North Uist's MV Hebrides struck a pier and all its sailings on Thursday were cancelled. Uist left with no ferry service after MV Hebrides hits pier 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z A Scottish man battled crippling seasickness, "scary" night swims and a swollen tongue to become the first person to swim, run and cycle the length of the Outer Hebrides. Seasick swimmer makes history by completing Outer Hebrides challenge 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The couple describe Rum, one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides, as "pretty close to an idyll" but say there are logistical challenges involved in living on an island. Return to the island where eagles watch you brush your teeth 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Nick and Karen live in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. 'Sea kayaking helps my recovery from depression' 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The group is made up of four males and four females and normally resides in the Hebrides in Scotland. UK's only resident killer whales spotted in Cornwall 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The film shot in the winter of 2018 in the Uists, a group of islands in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and several of the locals, as well as a group of actual refugees, served as extras. In 'Limbo,' a refugee story from an authentic point of view. No white saviors needed 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Anthropologists believe Philip became linked to the legend in the 1960s when Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony known as the New Hebrides. Pacific island devotees of Prince Philip send their condolences 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z There are two main types: the colorful, tightly woven Harris Tweed of the Outer Hebrides and the more earthy-hued fabrics of the Scottish Borderlands and Highlands. How tweed became a symbol of Scottish culture 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z They include stunning seascapes from the Inner Hebrides and encounters with wildlife, including seabirds and seals. 'Sea kayaking helps my recovery from depression' 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Hull 802, destined for an Outer Hebrides route, is still being built on the slipway. 'Catastrophic' failings over Ferguson ferry 'fiasco' 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The letter's signatories - which includes crofters, development officers and Gaelic campaigners - said 40% of housing stock on both Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and West Harris in the Western Isles were holiday homes. Islanders fear 'clearance' over house prices 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The parents of Eilidh Macleod, 14, who lived on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, described her as a popular friend who was "wise, well beyond her years". 'There is always that empty chair where she should be' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Unlike the brighter swaths of the Outer Hebrides, tweeds from the Scottish Borderlands and Highlands come in mossy greens and muted, earthy browns, a sort of aristocratic camouflage recalling gamekeeper uniforms and pipe bands. How tweed became a symbol of Scottish culture 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The president’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was a fisherman’s daughter from a Scottish village in the Outer Hebrides who arrived in New York in 1930 at the age of 18. Like Father, Like Son: President Trump Lets Others Mourn 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Despite its title, Devolution has nothing to do with Scottish political independence, “and I’ll do a Scottish apology tour if it’s a problem, from the Outer Hebrides to Hadrian’s Wall,” he says. Max Brooks: 'Pandemics come in predictable cycles. If I'm the smartest guy in the room, we're in big trouble' 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z Researchers said the fossil of the Silurian Period creature, called Kampecaris obanensis and unearthed on the island of Kerrera in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, inhabited a lakeside environment and likely ate decomposing plants. Millipede from Scotland is world's oldest-known land animal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z On the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, however, the vital supplies arrive up to four times a day. Drone deliveries soar in rural Scotland during coronavirus outbreak 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z “Scotland, the Hebrides in particular, is almost a fantasy land of weavers,” says Mark Hogarth, creative director of Harris Tweed Hebrides, which produces about three-quarters of the world’s Harris Tweed. How tweed became a symbol of Scottish culture 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Ratard was born in Santo, New Hebrides, and “spent his youth under the coconut trees before having to go to College in grey and cold Paris, France,” he wrote in his biography at the Academia.edu website. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana’s state epidemiologist, dies at 75 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Vanuatu, with roughly 80 islands stretching about 1,300 kilometers and a population near 300,000, was jointly controlled by the United Kingdom and France as the New Hebrides before it gained independence in 1980. UN releases $2.5 million to help cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Sea eagles had only just been reintroduced into the Hebrides, and a nest would be a sign that they might be able to re-establish themselves in that part of the world. Opinion | I Had a Gloriously Wild Childhood. That’s Why I Wrote ‘How to Train Your Dragon.’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z But there is nothing dull about the posting on the island of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides. Doctor wanted for remote isle ... fainthearted need not apply 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The book also displays a lively erudition: when Deakin describes a swim off the virtually unpopulated island of Jura, in the Scottish Hebrides, he notes that George Orwell retreated there to write “1984.” The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Series nine eases us gently into 1965 with a Christmas special set in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, but as fans of the show will know, its cosy image belies some pretty hard-hitting storylines. Call the Midwife star talks tough on vaccinations 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The ladies of Nonnatus House lend a helping hand to locals in Scotland’s remote Outer Hebrides — or was that the Inner Hebrides? — in this year’s “Call the Midwife Holiday Special.” What’s on TV This Week: 'A Christmas Story' and more 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z It is feared the animal was trapped in the discarded strapping for a week before he was discovered on Jura in the Inner Hebrides. Stag died after being tangled in plastic tape 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z A number of small earthquakes are regularly recorded in the Highlands and Inner Hebrides. 'Deep rumble' as earthquakes felt in Glen Coe 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z She said research also indicated that the man possibly spent his childhood in an area such as the north-west Highlands or Outer Hebrides. Face of a Medieval man reconstructed 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Previously it was an Anglo-French condominium called the New Hebrides, and the people are scattered over a daisy chain of more than 80 islands. How selling citizenship is now big business 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The Sea of the Hebrides is one of four marine areas currently under consideration for protection by the Scottish government. Fin tech: underwater robot monitors sharks in Scottish waters 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Large groups of basing sharks gather in the Sea of the Hebrides from May to October to feed on plankton. Lives of basking sharks caught on 'SharkCam' 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Large groups of the fish gather in the Sea of the Hebrides from May to October to feed on plankton. Backing sought for basking shark 'safe zone' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Now artefacts found at four crannogs in the Outer Hebrides show they are much older. Daily briefing: Fecal transplant linked to patient’s death 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z It is an 11-hour boat ride from the Outer Hebrides and birds, not people, are its resident population. The adventurers who lived on Rockall 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z “It really brings home why it’s so important that the species and its habitat are protected by designating the Sea of the Hebrides as a marine protected area,” she said. Fin tech: underwater robot monitors sharks in Scottish waters 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z "It really brings home why it's so important that the species and its habitat are protected by designating the Sea of the Hebrides as a Marine Protected Area." Lives of basking sharks caught on 'SharkCam' 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The proposed sites are at the southern trench in the outer Moray Firth, north east Lewis, the Sea of the Hebrides and Shiant East Bank. Blue belt zones to protect minke whales 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z It was their job to fly from the inner Hebrides out over the Atlantic in specially-equipped bombers and record the weather conditions. The 'weathermen' who helped save D-Day 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The Lewis Chessmen were discovered in 1831 in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Missing Lewis Chessmen piece found, will be auctioned July 2 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z An artist carved this owl from the rib bone of a minke whale, washed up on a beach in the Hebrides. Glimpsing a world beyond human extinction 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The Sea of the Hebrides MPA is one of four possibilities currently under consultation by the Scottish government, which will run until 30 August. Lives of basking sharks caught on 'SharkCam' 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Solas, which is a Gaelic word for "light", includes material from two BBC broadcasts that Shaw made in the 1950s, and also features sounds recorded in the Hebrides in the 1930s and 40s by Campbell. Leading photographer remembered in film 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Recent picks include Xiamen, a coastal city in China opposite Taiwan; the Outer Hebrides, in Scotland; and Uzbekistan. The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Similarly, in the Outer Hebrides, many workers were employed in the manufacture of rough linen, known as slave cloth, for export to the colonies. How Scotland erased Guyana from its past 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z A film shot on location in southern and western Scotland and based on a true story from the Outer Hebrides is hitting the big screen. Lighthouse mystery hits the big screen 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z They included remote and sparsely populated places such as north Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and north Aberdeenshire. Most popular places for a walk revealed 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z In 1773, Samuel Johnson visited the Hebrides and found that second sight was nothing unusual among the islanders. The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But Mary – whom researchers found during an expedition in the Outer Hebrides – was discovered to be pregnant with babies. Virgin births: is there something fishy about Mary the stickleback’s little miracles? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The two countries ruled the archipelago as a joint colony, called the Condominium of the New Hebrides, until independence was achieved in 1980. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Mobile libraries play a critical role in the Outer Hebrides. The bookshops of Scotland 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z In Scotland strong winds and rain were forecast for Lanarkshire as well as the Outer Hebrides, much of north-west Scotland, Orkney and the Shetland Isles. Storm Callum overwhelms flood defences 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Canna in the inner Hebrides, which is also owned by the National Trust for Scotland, is in a similar situation, relying on power from a generator to supply its population of 67. Glory of 24-hour power reaches Fair Isle 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Also on Saturday will be a Pride parade in Stornoway, Lewis, the first event of its kind to be held in the Hebrides. Pride parades in Inverness and Stornoway 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z They recently spent a week off the coast of Mull in the Inner Hebrides tagging three basking sharks using towed camera tags. Scots seas used as shark 'mating ground' 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z But the colonies were of limited value; for a while, the only pledge of support de Gaulle got was from New Hebrides, in the South Pacific, not hugely useful for a European war. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Trump’s mother, Mary MacLeod, was indeed born in Scotland, on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Trump keeps saying his father was born in Germany – he wasn't 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides and the chart was decorated with the MacLeod family crest and its tartan. Trump leaves London after wreaking diplomatic destruction 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Trump’s mother, Mary Anne Macleod, was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides in Scotland. The Latest: Trump’s tea with queen runs 17 minutes long 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Seventy-one of the islands - many making up the Hebrides, Shetland and Orkney - are off the coast of Scotland, while only two are off the coast of Wales. Life on the 82 other Great British islands 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Almost 10 years later, he ventured with Pressburger to the Isle of Mull, a more tractable place in the Inner Hebrides, to film “I Know Where I’m Going!” A Veritable No Man’s Land, Off the Coast of Scotland 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Morph, a clay figure who first appeared on TV more than 40 years ago, has been taken on a tour of the Outer Hebrides. Morph's grand tour of the Western Isles 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But the isle of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides, is now being recognised for an almost forgotten example of huge courage and humanity. The Scottish island that buried America's dead 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z He returned to the South Pacific several years later and decided to go to Erromango, Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides. Cannibal victim's artefacts sold 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z For 40 years, ornithologist Michael Brooke has traversed the seas in pursuit of seabirds — from Alexander Selkirk Island west of Chile to the Shiant Isles of the UK Hebrides. The laws of the cosmos, solar-power challenges and Darwin’s contribution to geology: Books in brief 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z The device was found on Tiree in the Inner Hebrides in January last year. Greenland lost buoy found in Scotland 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z You start your book on the Shiant Isles in Scotland’s Hebrides. Plastic Smells the Same as Fish to a Seabird 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z Costa- and Impac-winner Miller is known for his masterful historical novels: here, a soldier home from the disastrous campaign against Napoleon in 1809 runs from his demons towards the Hebrides. 2018 in books: a literary calendar 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Joint Warrior overlaps with another Nato exercise, Formidable Shield, which is focused on the Western Isle's Hebrides Range. Military exercise begins off Scotland 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “I’ve kept its style slightly run-down – the Hebrides feel,” he claimed in later years. This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr Corbyn will meet staff at Harris Tweed Hebrides before addressing a town hall rally in Stornoway, highlighting his party's policies for rural areas. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to begin tour of Scottish seats - BBC News 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The original film was shot entirely in the Outer Hebrides. Tourism hopes after Whisky Galore remake - BBC News 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Both tugboat and rig had been caught in heavy weather while circumnavigating the Hebrides, sailing a mile and a half off the Scottish islands. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Among the headline speakers is Sacha Dench, the woman dubbed the "human swan", who announced earlier this week that she plans a powered paraglider flight from tip to toe of the Hebrides. Wild Film Festival Scotland gets under way in Dumfries - BBC News 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Theresa May will present Donald Trump, whose mother was born in the Outer Hebrides, with an engraved quaich, a Scottish artefact symbolising friendship. Theresa May and Donald Trump to hold face-to-face talks - BBC News 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The islands, which lie about 40 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, were home to generations of people until the last were evacuated in 1930. Census find sheds new light on St Kilda's history - BBC News 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Last week, Putin’s visit to Tokyo turned frosty after Japan failed to secure expected concessions from him over the southern Kurils, islands that are no more Russian than the Hebrides. The world’s powers have to resolve their remnants of empire | Martin Kettle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Nothing quite like it had happened in the Hebrides since the 1940s, when the cargo ship Politician, abundantly loaded with bottled spirits, ran aground on the nearby island of Eriskay. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Known as alternatively as the Western Isles or the Outer Hebrides, the string of islands is known for its rugged landscapes and wildlife. Diesel Fuel Leaking From Grounded Oil Rig in U.K. 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z With a high arching brow and deep, round eyes, MacLeod hailed from Tong, a remote fishing community in the parish of Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Donald Trump’s Immigrant Mother 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The US property billionaire's business links with Scotland began a decade ago as he promised to create a legacy to his mother Mary MacLeod, who was born in Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. Donald Trump due in Scotland to reopen Turnberry golf resort - BBC News 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Many Scots are not looking forward to hosting Mr Trump, whose mother was born on the tiny Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Waiting for Donald 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Hawk had been ordered to the Hebrides from Singapore. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Services are to be denied in and around the Hebrides during military training. Hillwalkers urged to use maps not GPS - BBC News 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z At the Harris Tweed Hebrides mill, the machinery is working at full clatter. EU Referendum: Are the Western Isles the most Eurosceptic part of Britain? - BBC News 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z CalMac already operates the routes on the west coast of Scotland, which include the inner and outer Hebrides. CalMac wins £900m ferry contract - BBC News 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In particular, analysis of deer samples from archaeological sites in Orkney and the Outer Hebrides revealed surprisingly distinctive DNA sequences. 'Mystery voyage' of Scottish islands' red deer - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z On 6 August, Winner entered the Atlantic, and the next day she was lost in the storm off the Hebrides. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z In 1954 Strand travelled to the Hebrides in Scotland having been inspired to visit the area when he heard a Gaelic folk song on the BBC. Photographic pioneer Paul Strand on show - BBC News 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z One of the those incoming target missiles was an American Terrier-Orion two-stage rocket which was launched from the Hebrides missile range in the Western Isles. Hebrides rocket launch: The space milestone we almost missed - BBC News 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z According to the SNH report, the Irish and Celtic Seas represent an important migration corridor for basking sharks moving between the Sea of the Hebrides, the Isle of Man and southwest England. Tags give insight into basking shark behaviour - BBC News 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The ancient Orkney and Hebrides deer DNA in the new study is not a good match for any known population of red deer, including ancient specimens from mainland Scotland, Ireland and Norway. 'Mystery voyage' of Scottish islands' red deer - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z All along the perimeter fence were signs that ordered “Respect this barrier”, signs that continued until the barrier fell away completely, mangled, torn and disrespected by the storm back in the Hebrides. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Hebrides Art is a gallery and coffee shop in Seilebost on the west coast of the Isle of Harris. VisitScotland reveals top-rated visitor attractions - BBC News 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z It just needs another eight days to match a British record set by Isle of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides. Newspaper review: Front pages focus on fixed Easter and spacewalk - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Thousands of homes are without power in the north east, Argyll, the Borders, Highlands, Hebrides and Northern Isles. UK floods: Storm Frank batters Scottish border town Peebles - BBC News 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z We find them from New Zealand to the South, to these islands to the North, and from Easter Island to the Hebrides.” 3,000-year-old burial ground may reveal secrets of Polynesian migration 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z It was in my capacity as a neck-craner that I had followed Winner to the Hebrides, getting as close to the rig as I could, which was never that close. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z "By the time we get around Skye and into the Hebrides there's a good chance we will get into some horrible headwinds," said Mr Conway. Seasick-prone Sean Conway sailing bid under way - BBC News 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Two years after its independence in 1980 — the archipelago was formerly the British-French colony of the New Hebrides — Vanuatu secured diplomatic relations with China. Vanuatu Joins Motley Crew at China's WWII Anniversary Parade 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The RMT said Argyll Ferries relied on CalMac engineers and expertise, so would be affected by any changes to the Clyde and Hebrides contract. CalMac and RMT due to hold talks in ferry workers dispute - BBC News 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z They went ashore in Venezuela, flew to Peru, to Tahiti and then to New Hebrides where, she said, they got married. Traffic accident in Australia ends 40-year Florida mystery 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Only one third of Calmac's ferries across the Hebrides and Clyde Estuary are currently operating. CalMac ferry strike hits travellers - BBC News 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The dispute centres on a tendering process which could see the Clyde and Hebrides routes taken over by a private firm. CalMac ferry staff begin 24-hour strike - BBC News 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z They call her the Queen of the Hebrides and it is easy to see why. Land reform - The battle to decide who owns Scotland - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The employees will refuse to work overtime on the ferry operator's Clyde and Hebrides services on Wednesday and Thursday. RMT members at CalMac to take industrial action - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Now he’ll track across the US, and spend the summer island-hopping across the north Atlantic, from northern Canada, to Greenland, then Iceland and the outer Hebrides, and back to Belfast. Around the world in an autogyro: cancer survivor attempts a global first 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Marine researchers are trying to find out why the dolphins are thriving in the Hebrides. Why the Common Dolphin is becoming more common - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The dispute between CalMac and its employees was triggered by the Scottish government's tendering process for the contract to run the Clyde and Hebrides ferry network. CalMac ferry staff begin 24-hour strike - BBC News 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z General Aviation traffic will operate as usual at all 11 airports, which include those in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, Argyll, Inverness and Wick. Hial airport security staff set to strike 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z They include services to and from the Western Isles and the Inner Hebrides. RMT members at CalMac to take industrial action - BBC News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Alcohol was the most popular drink during Anglo-French rule - when the islands were known as the New Hebrides - but the Europeans' brew brought social problems and violence, he said. Kava crisis as Cyclone Pam devastates Vanuatu cultural crop 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Britain's Meteorological Office says 95 percent of the sun will be covered in the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetland Islands. Faeroes invaded by total eclipse seekers 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Formerly known as the New Hebrides, Vanuatu was jointly ruled by France and Britain until independence in 1980. Early Death Toll in Cyclone Pam in Pacific 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z They traveled to the Hebrides and to the Orkney and Shetland Islands; they went to Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through America 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z It is, after all, known as The Queen of the Hebrides. A partial true golf trip to Scotland that sprinkles in single-malt whiskey and marathons : The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z A spokesman for the communications giant said electrical storms that affected phone services in the Hebrides, Argyll and Orkney were the worst seen in almost 50 years. Winds of '90mph or more' forecast 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The tweed used was woven at Harris Tweed Hebrides' mill in Shawbost on Lewis. Whisky cloth smells like tweed spirit 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z The isle of Lewis in the outer Hebrides is said to be the last place in Britain where the fourth commandment - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy - is still strictly observed. Does Sabbath still exist on Lewis? 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Today, the highest concentrations are recorded on the Hebrides and Orkney. Best corncrake season 'in years' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Always more motivated than their unionist rivals, Yes campaigners are now turning out for a final push, from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow’s slums, in a euphoric state. Rise of the ayes 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Two homes in the Hebrides, two in London and one in Hampshire are also vying for the Riba prize on 16 October. Designer home in line for top award 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z "Fabric technologists in Galashiels developed the prototypes which will enable Harris Tweed Hebrides to offer products using this technology in future." Whisky cloth smells like tweed spirit 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Areas to be examined include the Solway Firth, the Sea of the Hebrides, the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel. Oil and gas prospects to be examined 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z More than 400 harbour porpoises were recorded off the shores of the Hebrides, including Canna, north east mainland Scotland and Orkney. In pictures: Whales and dolphins 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z According to the Guardian, locations are speculated to include Bristol, Norfolk, the north of Scotland, and the Outer Hebrides. United Kingdom plans first spaceport for 2018 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z By David Owen Askernish is on the island of South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, off the coast of northwestern Scotland. Reader's trip report: Askernish Golf Club, South Uist, Scotland: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The painter will give a percentage of the proceeds from Jolomo in the Hebrides, which opens on Saturday at MacGregor Fine Art in Glasgow, and several other exhibitions this year, to the fund. Top painter in pledge to art school 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Canna, the most westerly of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides. Super infuriating animals? 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z A young man returning to Shetland or the Hebrides in the 1950s after 18 months "at the ice" could buy a house, start a business or commission a fishing boat on his earnings. The lost whaling station at the end of the world 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The Johnson and Boswell double-act is wonderfully beguiling; the Hebrides and the Scottish Enlightenment have never been examined by such gimlet eyes. Back to school, Mr Gove: authors choose their GCSE set texts 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr Beveridge, who manufactured linen, frequently visited the Highlands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Images revisit changing landscape 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The word is still used in parts of Scotland -- for example, on the island of South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides. Great golf courses: Machrihanish and Machrihanish Dunes: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The population of whales found in the Hebrides is known as 'The West Coast Community' Expedition to study at-risk whales 2014-05-07T17:51:58Z If newly caught, there were consolations: "You could warm your hands in the fresh blood," Jock Murray, a whaler from the Hebrides remembers. The lost whaling station at the end of the world 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The Western Isles, also known of the Outer Hebrides that lie off western Scotland, are home to about 27,000 people with the picturesque island chain a popular tourist destination. Scottish islanders seek votes for own independence 2014-03-24T18:46:36Z It was while at art school that she first went to Coll, a tiny island measuring just 12 miles by three miles in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. Mairi Hedderwick: I am Katie Morag 2014-03-09T09:41:39Z "If you look at the New Hebrides trench, and where it is geographically, it lies under very unproductive waters - there is not a lot happening at the surface of the tropical waters," said Dr Jamieson. First images of unexplored deep sea 2014-03-03T00:08:43Z Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, is Scotland's largest island. Scottish island rated best in Europe 2014-02-19T07:11:35Z Coll, which is located west of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, has a population of just under 200 people. Mobile mast plan for Scots island 2014-01-30T03:32:46Z For example, the citizens of Stornoway and the Hebrides will shortly be able to order online and collect their groceries from a depot by the ferry port. Is Tesco on the turn? 2014-01-08T09:32:16Z She says: "In one book called the Island of Adventure she describes the sea and the sea birds and I saw for the first time the Hebrides, through the medium of Enid Blyton." Mairi Hedderwick: I am Katie Morag 2014-03-09T09:41:39Z In Scotland, its warnings were upgraded to include the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the north west Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Orkney and Shetland. Fresh wave of weather woe on the way 2013-12-24T03:46:40Z Introduced in March 2012, the discount currently applies to the Hebrides, Northern Isles, islands in the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly as well as other island communities in Europe. Bid for fuel discount in rural towns 2013-10-17T23:05:22Z But he always loved to talk about his heritage and about the islands of St Kilda, which lie 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides. Death of one of last St Kildans 2013-10-01T22:56:38Z A competitor takes part in the World Stone Skimming Championships, held on Easdale Island, the smallest permanently inhabited island of the Inner Hebrides. Day in pictures: 30 September 2013 2013-09-30T11:29:56Z Every chance he gets, Scott hops in his surf van and heads to the Orkney Islands or the Outer Hebrides to surf some the most powerful and coldest waves on the planet. Renewable Energy, The Action-Adventure Thriller 2013-09-09T15:34:00Z A emergency rescue operation was sparked at sea in the Outer Hebrides when red flares were set off by people at a beach party. Beach party flares spark rescue bid 2013-09-01T09:17:36Z Introduced in March 2012, the discount applies to the Hebrides, Northern Isles, islands in the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly. Move to extend fuel discount scheme 2013-07-31T23:32:57Z Today, it is confined to the extreme north and west of the British Isles: including the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Skye and a few outlying corners of the north and west of Ireland. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z Donald Macleod, the coxswain of the Bara lifeboat, gets an MBE in recognition of his voluntary work with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, contributing to maritime safety in the Outer Hebrides. Knighthood for Scottish police chief 2013-06-14T21:30:10Z Mr Wilson, executive chairman of Harris Tweed Hebrides, recently picked up two of the top trophies at the UK Fashion and Textiles Awards. Bobbin and weaving 2013-06-08T11:13:20Z Weather permitting, he is due to set off from the port of Leverburgh on South Harris in the Outer Hebrides. Adventurer aims for Rockall record 2013-05-29T09:44:42Z Sites included the uninhabited Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides, and in Wester Ross on the Scottish mainland. Can giant eagles spread their wings? 2013-05-13T01:05:46Z A house in the village of Arnol, on the isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ 2013-05-06T19:00:00Z He valued and enjoyed his family connections and friendships in the Isle of Gigha, in the Hebrides, and in Norway, both of which he visited regularly. Richard Groves obituary 2013-02-19T11:00:27Z From 1909, a law was in place that meant the Harris Tweed logo, an orb, could only be used if the material had been spun, dyed and hand-woven on the islands of the Outer Hebrides. Bobbin and weaving 2013-06-08T11:13:20Z In Scotland, even the Scots—most of them—have never made it to their western isles, especially the Outer Hebrides. Rock of Ages 2013-02-11T05:00:00Z "This indicates that the wave power resource off the Outer Hebrides is even better than what was thought to be the case," said Mr Vogler. Could big waves be big news for the Western Isles? 2013-02-04T15:04:27Z Their speakers are as apparently different as the Uighurs of western China and the Scots of the Outer Hebrides. Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ 2013-05-06T19:00:00Z He added: "With just nine individuals and a home range stretching from the Outer Hebrides to Galway on the west of Ireland, to find them at all is simply astounding." 'Extinction threat' for UK orcas 2013-01-09T11:38:24Z Brian Wilson was part of the Harris Tweed Hebrides consortium that bought a mothballed tweed mill at Shawbost, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. Bobbin and weaving 2013-06-08T11:13:20Z In fact, the whole of the Hebrides - a region known as Innse Gall - gave its allegiance to the Vikings from western Norway. The last battle of the Vikings 2012-12-14T07:55:54Z Roc Sandford is the owner of the island of Gometra in the Inner Hebrides - one of the wildest and undeveloped parts of the UK. Scotland's salmon farm dilemma 2012-09-10T23:03:52Z Their speakers are as apparently different as the Uighurs of western China and the Scots of the Outer Hebrides. Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ 2013-05-06T19:00:00Z Hial's airports in the Highlands, Northern Isles, Argyll, Dundee and the Hebrides connect to a network of more than 30 destinations in the UK and abroad. Games 'a factor' in airports fall 2012-08-15T09:39:14Z Or for the real iron men… The World Stone Skimming Championships 2012 will take place on 23 September on Easdale Island in the Inner Hebrides. 10 ways to fill the Olympics void 2012-08-13T23:32:53Z But Alexander's obsession with winning the Hebrides proved fatal when he sailed up the west coast with a powerful fleet in 1249. The last battle of the Vikings 2012-12-14T07:55:54Z The happiest region of the whole UK is the most northerly - Shetland, Orkney and the Outer Hebrides. Does sunshine make us happier? 2012-07-25T13:00:07Z The curious encampment at Dunstanburgh is one of eight outposts of the project, from the Outer Hebrides to Cuckmere Haven in Sussex. Artists reclaim British coastline with love poetry camp and moving island 2012-07-20T15:50:00Z Across the Outer Hebrides, in deepest Wales, and finally here in Cornwall, there is a new spring in the step of those who crave legislative and fiscal independence from Westminster. Free Cornwall! 2012-06-23T23:08:01Z Corncrakes were counted on Orkney, the Western Isles and the Inner Hebrides. New festival celebrates rare bird 2012-06-15T00:11:42Z Haakon led his fleet through the Hebrides, island by island, demanding allegiance. The last battle of the Vikings 2012-12-14T07:55:54Z A flagship 460-acre wood is being created in Leicestershire, while others are to be situated in the Outer Hebrides, Cornwall and Buckinghamshire. 60 Diamond Jubilee Woods revealed 2012-06-01T03:22:20Z It will also visit the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides and the Shetlands. Q&A: The Olympic torch 2012-05-21T12:53:34Z They have been broadly classified into the Outer Hebrides and the Inner Hebrides, the Minch and Little Minch dividing the one group from the other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Last Monday "The Hebrides" was given for the first time in the Philharmonic; it went admirably, and sounded very quaint among a variety of Rossini pieces. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z For the descendants of the Vikings in the Hebrides things were beginning to change too. The last battle of the Vikings 2012-12-14T07:55:54Z We never looked forward to a pleasure trip with so much misery as we did to our journey to the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z His Scotch Symphony and Hebrides Overture attested his love of Scotch scenery. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The Outer Hebrides being almost entirely composed of gneiss the epithet suitably serves them, but, strictly speaking, only the more northerly of the Inner Hebrides may be distinguished as Trap Islands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Just as I was going to set to work at the "Hebrides," arrived Herr B——, a musical professor from Magdeburg. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z As King of Norway, Canute was lord of the Shetlands and the Orkneys, perhaps also the Hebrides, and other Norse colonies on the west shores of Scotland. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z The morning hours of the Hebrides are even later than those of London, which we had hitherto supposed the latest in the working world. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The same change of color has been observed in the Hebrides, and elsewhere. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Hebrides are mentioned by Ptolemy under the name of Ἔβουδαι and by Pliny under that of Hebudes, the modern spelling having, it is said, originated in a misprint. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z After I have completed the Hebrides, I think of arranging H�ndel's Solomon for future performance, with proper curtailments, etc. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Clustering around its western and northern sides are the Hebrides, the Shetland and the Orkney islands; wild and rocky isles, with rude and primitive inhabitants, constituting the Ultima Thule of Great Britain. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Iona is the show-place by which we fancied the Duke of Argyll must hope to answer the question, once in a great while asked, about misery, terrorism, extortion, rent, in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Taking twelve of these with him, Columba sailed from Ireland, and the weather proving propitious, all safely arrived at Hy of the Hebrides. The Life of Saint Columba, Abbot, and Apostle of the Northern Picts 2012-01-28T03:00:27.347Z Soon afterwards they began to make incursions against their mother-country, and on this account Harald fitted out an expedition against them, and placed Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man under Norwegian government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z I am now working daily at the "Hebrides," and will send it to Ritz as soon as it is finished. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z It was a very long way to the Outer Hebrides, and, moreover, he had eight horses in his stable. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z But from this time until we left the Hebrides we were so much taken up with what we saw as scarce to give him another thought. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It is an odd feature of Cornwall that however bare and treeless some parts are, and they could hardly be barer in the Hebrides, yet the towns are generally warmly encompassed by trees. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Swift, she stretches o'er the seas To the far off Hebrides, Canvas on the lofty mast Could not travel half so fast— Swifter than the eagle's flight Or instantaneous rays of light! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The "Hebrides" is completed at last, and a strange production it is. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z In one lamentable case of a European addicted to such vice, Thakombau ordered him to leave the group, and he was afterwards killed in the New Hebrides. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z It may be that there is truth in the story which gives a touch of Spanish blood to the people of the Outer Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It also occurs in North Wales and very 638 generally throughout Scotland, though not in Orkney, Shetland or the Outer Hebrides, nor in Ireland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The solicitor lived in London, but not unfrequently ran down to enjoy the sea or the land sport, so easily obtained in this lone but lovely isle of the Hebrides. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Macgillivray informs us that it is more abundant in the outer Hebrides than in any other part of the country he has visited; and that it is there generally known by the name of Sparrow. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z In the New Hebrides and Banks Islands the quasi-religious character of the custom has not yet given place to everyday use, and yankona is not drunk by women. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Indeed, I know of no better description of the Outer Hebrides than the quotation given in the guide-book: "The sea here is all islands and the land all lakes." Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The danger attaching to the capture of the Petrel in its rocky haunts in the Hebrides is thus vividly described by Mr. Drosier. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z During the remarkable voyage he then made to Timor, Bligh passed amongst the northern islands of the New Hebrides, which he named the Banks Group, and made several running surveys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In the Hebrides, the Orkneys and Shetland Islands, it is quite at home, but in none of these places is it found in sufficient numbers to give it importance. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z We know that the Banks Islanders acquired the habit of drinking it only recently, and it is possible that the New Hebrides natives learned the habit from labourers returning from the plantations in Fiji. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The land in the Hebrides is barren, it is argued in behalf of the sportsmen. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The Raven builds its nest in high trees and among inaccessible and precipitous rocks, especially in the Hebrides, and lives on carrion, not disdaining fruit and grain. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z And I was certain the New Hebrides had no real charms to permanently arrest your feet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 2011-09-19T02:00:10.183Z A few are said annually to remain, and breed in the lakes of Westmoreland, and in the Hebrides. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The plant is unknown in the Solomon Islands and the other Melanesian groups, with the exception of the Banks and New Hebrides Islands. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z We could see this for ourselves; after the Switzerland of the Hebrides, the mountains rose a solid mass of black rock with scarce a trace of vegetation. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The attempt to evangelize the New Hebrides led to the death of Williams and two of his companions. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The questions of Egypt and the New Hebrides, of our post near the Pyramids, and your Protectorate near Tahiti, have, of course, no real connection. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 2011-09-19T02:00:10.183Z In some of the Outer Hebrides Fulmars breed; but the great station, to which tens of thousands annually resort, is the remote island of St. Kilda. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z It was from the lips of an old priest of the Hebrides that I first heard these words. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The evicted in the Hebrides have hitherto been those who interfere with the landlord's convenience or amusement. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It treats of the language of the Fiji Islands, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, &c., and shows their radical affinity with the Polynesian class. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Parts of the western coast of Northern Scotland and the Hebrides are composed of a crystalline rock called Gneiss, and supposed to be the oldest member of the British strata. Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils 2011-08-20T02:00:11.557Z In the Hebrides it is said that they do not migrate at all, but simply content themselves with shifting from the moors to the shore and back again, according to the weather. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z A much more puzzling problem obtains in the apparent traces of Buddha-worship in the Hebrides. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z In the Hebrides, the landlord has always had rights; the crofter, until the passing of the Crofters' Bill of 1886, had none. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z I shall sit on the bench where Johnson sat with Boswell on his journey to the Hebrides. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Life of Johnson, with the Tour in the Hebrides, and Johnsoniana. A Classified Catalogue of Selected Works Published by George Bell and Sons November, 1892 2011-08-05T02:00:49.363Z This bird, as its name indicates, frequents high northern latitudes, to which, however, it is not confined; since in the Orkneys and Hebrides it is the common species. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Both organisations have also said they were willing to work with the council-led Hebrides Range Task Force in looking at other uses for the range. UK's largest rocket range 'safe' 2011-07-22T09:25:19Z The pipes now seldom are heard in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Paton moves to the Hebrides and jeopardizes his life among the savages, but never lets up till he sees the groves flourishing in that dark and dreary land. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z And now, within a few streets of him—yet as completely hidden as if on a solitary rock in the Northern Hebrides—Roland sits, engaged in his usual occupation—brooding. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z In spring, Great Black-Backed Gulls for the most part withdraw to cliffs and rocky islands far north, as, for instance, the Orkneys and Hebrides, where they are numerous, a few only nesting southwards. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The Hebrides Range is the largest facility of its kind in the UK and provides a vital testing capability for the UK's air defence weapons systems. UK's largest rocket range 'safe' 2011-07-22T09:25:19Z He can afford to ignore the Campbells of the Outer Hebrides; but let him fight with his deadliest weapons against the crofters who to-day pay him rent. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z On his return from the Hebrides, he was asked by a Scottish gentleman, at an evening party in London, how he liked Scotland. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The general appearance of the islands is not unlike that of one of the outer Hebrides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The present species is, however, far less common, though it breeds in the Outer Hebrides and in Scotland, where both eggs and young birds have been observed, and migrates southward in winter. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Brown also, a Scotsman from the outer Hebrides, as he believed, by descent, but by habit and education purely English, felt himself at first an alien in the Scottish Lowlands. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It is but another proof of the uselessness of charity in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Other points of difference were arranged as to Siam, the New Hebrides and Madagascar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." 2011-05-27T02:00:16.463Z I with the airiest ease Traverse the angriest seas Round the wild Hebrides Bellowing and battering. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.207Z The 'Blue Maa', as this species is called in the north, breeds in abundance on the Scottish coasts as well as the moors of the fresh-water lochs, including the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Last year, plans for a Western Isles interconnector linking renewable projects on the Hebrides to the National Grid on the mainland were put on hold. Wave project sparks new link call 2011-05-19T01:39:13Z The greater part of "Our Journey to the Hebrides" was published originally in Harper's Magazine. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z In these frail barks the missionaries would brave the stormy seas of the Hebrides and all the dangers of the deep, secure in their trust in God and the prayers of their holy abbot. Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland 2011-05-10T02:00:58.153Z These birds inhabit the Arctic seas of the New and Old Worlds; they are abundant in the Hebrides, Norway, Sweden, and Russia. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Many stay to breed in the Orkneys and Outer Hebrides, and in Ireland. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Erroman�go, or Erroman�ga, one of the more important of the New Hebrides Islands, with an area of about 400 sq. miles, hilly and not very fertile, but with spots well cultivated. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z In this way we should avoid the September storms which kept them in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z I know that poets sing beautifully of the cuckoo bird, “Breaking the silence of the seas, Among the furthest Hebrides.” All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z Other social factors of importance are the clubs, especially in the New Hebrides and Banks Islands. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Except for a few species in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Fiji, the luminous Elateridae are unknown in the eastern hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The proposed cut would apply in Highland communities, the Northern Isles, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Islands of the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly. Plan for rural petrol price cut 2011-03-16T13:49:34Z Sir Walter Scott says that the Sound of Mull is the most striking scene in the Hebrides; it would have been fair to add, when storms and mists give one a chance to see it. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z During his vacations he explored most parts of Great Britain, the Hebrides, and Ireland, studying the geological structure, collecting agricultural knowledge, and making sketches. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z Here the chief intruders have been Scandinavians, whose descendants may still be recognised in Caithness, the Hebrides, and the Orkney and Shetland groups. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The oldest mountain chain lay in the extreme north-west of Europe, and its relics are seen in the outer Hebrides, the Lofoten Islands and the north of Norway. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But, initially at least, it would apply only to the Hebrides, the Northern Isles and the Isles of Scilly, not the most remote parts of the Scottish mainland. Concern at the pumps 2011-03-03T11:46:37Z This is the way you take your pleasure in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z In appearance they resemble the Outer Hebrides, and a large part of the population is of Scottish descent. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The high percentage here and in the Hebrides and opposite coasts, the authors trace to Viking invasions. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z He returns to the Hebrides regularly, riding between friends' houses on the island on a mountain bike. How Danny MacAskill's bike tricks have become a YouTube hit 2011-02-20T20:00:03Z His map includes also England, Ireland, and Scotland; and his Ultima Thule is, no doubt, the Hebrides of our days. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z It is strange that, though one of the largest of the Hebrides and within easiest reach of the main-land, Mull should be one of the least known and civilized. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z I don't know what is up the river—Glasgow Green, I think, and other places, but"—pointing down the river—"there lies the pathway to the Hebrides. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z The people of Eriskay, in the Outer Hebrides, awoke on 5 February 1941 to find a cargo ship, the SS Politician, aground off their island. Dark legacy 2011-02-04T08:40:51Z This weekend marks the seventieth anniversary of the grounding of a ship carrying thousands of bottles of whisky in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. 'Whisky Galore' seventy years on 2011-02-04T07:43:16Z Southerly winds will increase to severe gales across the Hebrides during the afternoon, before becoming west to southwesterly in the evening. Forecasters warning of 90mph wind 2011-02-02T14:38:54Z The Highlands and the Hebrides are lands of romance. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The reef was discovered in the Sea of the Hebrides when the area was mapped using modern mapping sonar techniques. Attenborough backs corals website 2011-01-26T01:08:35Z The planned pilot would provide a discount of up to 5p per litre of petrol and diesel in the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, and the Isles of Scilly. Cheap rural fuel 'not in Budget' 2011-01-18T11:42:16Z In the Hebrides, if one of the party stumbled and fell, the incident was held to indicate that he would be the next to die. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z He thought, therefore, that he had obtained a right to name them; and accordingly he bestowed upon them the appellation of the New Hebrides. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z But in the Hebrides the human silence and the desolate homes and the almost unbroken moorland would let us, as foreigners, think of nothing else. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z This seems decisive that in some way the Basques have borrowed this tale from the Kelts since their occupation of the Hebrides. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z According to the saga of his triumph, Cellachan called the whole of Ireland to share in the struggle for Irish freedom, and a fleet from Ailech carried off plunder and booty from the Hebrides. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z In others of the Hebrides, and along the west coast, there are many wells named after St. Columba. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z To the north and south in the golden glow of a September twilight we saw the long line of the Outer Hebrides like the rocky backbone of some submerged continent. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z How this can be is the real problem of the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z "We've trained from here to the Outer Hebrides in the most ridiculous situations," he said. Which celebrity will dance off with the Strictly prize? 2010-12-18T18:50:51Z The pub and restaurant is on the main sailing route to Skye, the Outer Hebrides and the Small Isles and attracts yachtsmen, hillwalkers and tourists throughout the year. Family travel 10,000 miles to view Britain's most remote pub 2010-05-16T16:57:00Z The public outcry against the cull of hedgehogs in the Outer Hebrides was intense. Green Room 2010-03-30T08:33:00Z He is a native of Ross-shire, though he draws many of his stories from the Western Hebrides, where his calling has placed him. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z At the end of a day's tramp one can see little beauty, save that of a good dinner and a soft bed, both of which are the exception in the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Cowell's tale of Vikings and dragons was influenced by childhood holidays on an isle in the Inner Hebrides. How to Train Your Dragon author's "secret" island inspiration 2010-03-30T00:43:00Z It ran services in the Outer and Inner Hebrides and to the Scottish mainland as well as between Cardiff and Anglesey in Wales. Airline taking over isles route 2010-03-25T18:08:00Z ARGYLLSHIRE, a county on the west coast of Scotland, the second largest in the country, embracing a large tract of country on the mainland and a number of the Hebrides or Western Isles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" For our special use Dr. Alexander Carmichael has rendered it out of the original Gaelic, as this was taken down by him in various versions in the Western Hebrides. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z In proportion to its size, it seemed to us the most cultivated island of the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z "What I will say is that the story is based on the Inner Hebrides - one of the most beautiful places on earth." How to Train Your Dragon author's "secret" island inspiration 2010-03-30T00:43:00Z "I think I have not been in such jeopardy," he said, "since I suffered shipwreck off the barren coast of the Hebrides, as I related to you yesterday." Idonia: A Romance of Old London It is found also in the Isle of Pines, and in the New Hebrides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Though Iona enjoys less of the wildness of the Hebrides furthest west, it has their storm-winds and fogs and dark days, and their strangeness of isolation. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z In our time a steamer comes to Iona every day from Oban, and twice a week another stops on its way to and from Glasgow and the Outer Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z There is a pleasant notice of him in Boswell's Life of Johnson, when Boswell and Johnson dined at his house on the tour to the Hebrides. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical "Not where we landed, in the Hebrides," replied the knight tartly. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Britain.—The most important exposure of Archean rocks in Britain is in the north-west of Scotland, where they form the mainland in Sutherland and Ross-shire, and appear also in the outer Hebrides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" In the Outer Hebrides, as in the Aranmore Islands off West Ireland, influences are at work on the Celtic imagination quite different from those in Skye and its neighbouring islands. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Land in the Hebrides, they say, is only fit for deer and grouse. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z In 1772 he visited Iceland along with Dr. Solander, and during this voyage the Hebrides were examined, and the columnar formation of the rocks of Staffa first made known to geologists. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis From Del Fuego's beetling coast To sleety Hebrides He hounded down the Spanish host And swept the flaming seas. The Coast of Bohemia Michael was already sufficiently in awe of Avery's talent for hurting his feelings, when from the Hebrides Mrs. Fane sent down Harris tweed for Michael's Norfolk suits. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Bou� was thus led to make geological expeditions to various parts of Scotland and the Hebrides, and after taking his degree of M.D. in 1817 he settled for some years in Paris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" We had heard of the steamer, as you hear of everything in the Hebrides, by chance. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Auro�ra, one of the New Hebrides Islands, S. Pacific Ocean, about 30 miles long by 5 wide. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In a little village in the Hebrides well known to me, four Presbyterian churches celebrate the Communion in August. Victory out of Ruin In a recent visit paid to the Hebrides, I found among the people a spirit of thankfulness that they have at last been delivered from a great evil. Stand Up, Ye Dead It is also applied to the strait between Mallicollo and Espiritu Santo Islands of the New Hebrides group, and the South American climbing plant Bougainvillea, often cultivated in greenhouses, is named after him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" She always called this bit of Harris the Switzerland of the Hebrides, she said. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The word Suthreyjar, here translated Hebrides, properly means all the islands off the west coast of Scotland. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Including his Tour to the Hebrides, Tour in Wales, &c. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise Begin to wonder what Park and Castle would fetch, if I were to go and settle in Hebrides to escape mob. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 Boswell’s Journal of a Tour in the Hebrides was written for the most part during the journey, but was not published until the spring of 1786. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Measles had broken out among the women and girls from the Hebrides. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z After that King Olaf sailed away to the British Isles with his host, as far as the Hebrides, where they landed and made a raid. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Between the western Highlands of Scotland and the remote, cloudy Hebrides lies the large island of Mull on a sound of that name. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Still farther, in the same direction, we reach the chain of islands to which the New Hebrides, Salomon, and New Ireland belong, where fringing reefs and masses of elevated coral indicate another area of upheaval. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology He proceeded across the Pacific Ocean by way of the Samoan group, which he named the Navigators Islands, the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The Hebrides, lower down on the west coast, are wonderfully picturesque. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. They occur in the Hebrides and Skye and in England as indicated above. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" A cottage in the Hebrides is by no means a cottage ornée. The Cruise of the Elena or Yachting in the Hebrides Again, to the westward of the New Hebrides we meet with the encircling reef of New Caledonia and the great Australian barrier, implying a second area of subsidence. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In the Hebrides the failure of a harvest almost depopulates an island. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem People came from the Hebrides to hear Mr. Gladstone speak. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) The Ey-Bridges, i.e., the Isles of Bridget, or the Hebrides, according to the modern form of their name, claim the honor of holding in loving embrace her mortal remains. Women of England In the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, and in the Minch between the outer Hebrides and Skye, are a series of hollows in the sea-bottom from 100 to 150 fathoms deep. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Remarkable examples of this kind are seen at the Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, and at Fingal's Cave, in Staffa, one of the Hebrides. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology All day the breeze held in the same point, and rather freshened than died down; and towards afternoon a swell began to set in from round the outer Hebrides. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) Among the Papuans, the inhabitants of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides adhere to this custom. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Between David and the misty Hebrides there was now many a league of the separating, changeful, dangerous, tragic sea, but the journey over this great waterway had been a singularly fortunate one. Prisoners of Conscience His grandfather had an island somewhere to the west of the Hebrides; but it is not laid down in the maps.” Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 Carpenter made a voyage to the Hebrides; and in 1863 he spent some months in the Bay of Biscay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Reference has been made to this remarkable island in a former page, but some more extended notice is desirable before leaving the region of the Inner Hebrides. Volcanoes: Past and Present And to all sorts of queer outlandish places besides—Scandinavia, the Hebrides, and Iceland; everywhere that you can go to by sea. The Return of the Prodigal He thought instantly of his sister, who was married to a man in comfortable circumstances living at Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides, and he resolved to take David to her. Prisoners of Conscience Strahan, at the doctor's return from the Hebrides, asked him, with a firm tone of voice, what he thought of his country. Old and New London Volume I Away to the north and west he could see the innumerable islands of the Hebrides, while to the east the huge mountainous mass of the mainland of Scotland loomed dark upon the horizon. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror This was a saint much honoured among the Hebrides. A Calendar of Scottish Saints In this case the lines would be—Norway, North Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland and Galloway. The Ethnology of the British Islands He would have kept his hand about me until my cousin David Borson came from the Hebrides. Prisoners of Conscience From Bolt Court he walked to service at St. Clement's Church on the day he rejoiced in comparing the animation of Fleet Street with the desolation of the Hebrides. Old and New London Volume I A district in the island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides; mentioned, 53 Calvaries. Legends & Romances of Brittany When he reviewed Johnson’s “Tour to the Hebrides,” he decrees that the whole book was written “by one who had seen but little,” and therefore could not be very interesting. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors How exquisitely the sun sets in a clear, calm, summer evening over the blue Hebrides! My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. “But still our hearts are true, our hearts are Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) It was here the famous "Tour to the Hebrides" was planned and laid out. Old and New London Volume I We will, if you can bear a sea-voyage, go to the Isles—the Hebrides, the Shetland, the Orkney Islands. Shirley There is an Icelandic Saga of the thirteenth century which relates the history of Thorgunna, a woman from the Hebrides, who was taken to Iceland on the first settlement of the country by Norway, A.D. Needlework As Art There is still a belief in certain parts of the Hebrides that second sight was once obtained there through a practice called "The Taigheirm." Byways of Ghost-Land In August, 1745, he landed with seven followers in the Hebrides, and on the 19th raised the standard of his father in Glenfinnan, Scotland. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The men from the Hebrides were now practically the only members of the party who were not, for one reason or another, in his black book. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba The Hebrides lay far to the southward, and less than two days' steam ahead lay the Arctic Circle. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships It was a Dublin ship, and on board it were Irishmen and men from Sodor and the Hebrides, but few Norsemen.... Needlework As Art At this time it is likely took place the escapade with which he must have convulsed the gravity of the Edinburgh literati invited to meet Johnson on their return from the Hebrides. James Boswell Famous Scots Series Tour to the Hebrides.28.Few men, to be sure, dared this experiment, but yet their success was encouraging. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Another agent upon whom Selkirk felt that he could rely was Colin Robertson, a native of the island of Lewis, in the Hebrides. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba This, then, was one of the units on the Outer Hebrides and Iceland patrol during the winter of 1915, and they seemed to be the sole occupants of the leagues of water around. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships On board the ship was a woman from the Hebrides, whose name was Thorgunna. Needlework As Art The tour to the Hebrides had been a project which had occurred to them in the first days of their friendship. James Boswell Famous Scots Series "And," I added, "music-lovers do not need to be told that you have also penetrated 'The silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.'" A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Vanuatu Multiple waves of colonizers, each speaking a distinct language, migrated to the New Hebrides in the millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. The 2008 CIA World Factbook Fishermen from the Hebrides and Newfoundland rubbing shoulders with yacht hands from the Solent and Clyde. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Another delightful book on the Outer Hebrides is that written by Mr. W. C. Mackenzie. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland No better book of travels in Scotland has ever been written than Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. James Boswell Famous Scots Series It is a wonderful piece, this Hebrides Overture, with all the magic and the mystery of the Islands about it. A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy He came from the Scotch Hebrides here when he was young, and now he’s old. Young Alaskans in the Far North Their principal zone of activity was the vast stretch of Arctic sea extending from Norway and North Russia to Iceland, the Hebrides and Labrador. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships You will find these libraries in all the townships of the Hebrides, from Ness in Lewis, down the long chain of islands, to Islay and Jura. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Efate Vila New Hebrides A fair coffee, but not a trade factor. All About Coffee He went around the Cape of Good Hope, and cruised in the Southern Pacific, discovering and taking possession of New Caledonia, visiting islands where he had landed before, and exploring and charting the New Hebrides. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The large island of Chiloe was visited in November, and its climate even in summer proved wretched, reminding one of some parts of the Hebrides, a week without torrents of rain being wonderful. Life of Charles Darwin And yet among the Oölitic deposits of the Hebrides evidence seems to exist that changes of this nature actually took place. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Thing unheard of in the Hebrides—the shops are open on Sunday mornings for the sale of Saturday's Scotsman and Herald. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland I spent a few days in the Hebrides. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Rollo, being unequal to a struggle with the king, betook himself to the Hebrides, where a number of other Norse chieftains had sought a refuge from similar persecutions. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Christianity had no foothold anywhere on the New Hebrides, unless it were in the memory and the blood of the Martyrs of Erromanga. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals If we except the islands of the Inner Hebrides, the famine of 1846 was restricted in Scotland to the primary districts. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Some houses in the Hebrides have three or four of these children, who, but for the action of the authorities, would be living under the most deplorable conditions of life in the towns. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It is in fact one of the New Hebrides. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia There are other circles in Lewis and the various islands of the Hebrides, and as far north as Orkney and Shetland. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Thus were the New Hebrides baptized with the blood of Martyrs; and Christ thereby told the whole Christian world that He claimed these Islands as His own. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals And so my design on the Hebrides had to be postponed for a twelvemonth. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland The Established Church is, with few exceptions, a negligible denomination in the Hebrides. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The Lazarists were at work also in Poland, in Ireland, and in the Hebrides. Life of St. Vincent de Paul Vanuatu: The British and French who settled the New Hebrides in the 19th century, agreed in 1906 to an Anglo-French Condominium, which administered the islands until independence in 1980. The 2001 CIA World Factbook Many Sabbath Schools, and many ladies and gentlemen, had individually promised the sum of £5 yearly to keep a Native Teacher on one or other of the New Hebrides Islands. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals In the previous season I had intended passing direct from the Oölitic deposits of the eastern coast of Scotland, to the Oölitic deposits of the Hebrides. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland South Uist, beyond all other islands of the Hebrides, abounds in game of all kinds, and the Prince was always a keen sportsman. The True Story Book The New Hebrides lie between 165° and 170° east longitude, and reach from 13° to 20° south latitude. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Man, Isle of: Part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Hebrides until the 13th century when it was ceded to Scotland, the isle came under the British crown in 1765. The 2001 CIA World Factbook The Church which began the Mission on the New Hebrides was granted the honor of building our new Mission Ship. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals He, however, employed the assistants and materials he had collected in a voyage to Iceland in 1772, returning by the Hebrides and Staffa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" A thorough search was being made of every bay and inlet of the mainland, and of every island, even to the Outer Hebrides, and further, to remote St. Kilda! The True Story Book They are divided into the Torres group, the Banks Islands, the Central and the Southern New Hebrides. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific For instances of curing-stones in the Hebrides, see Martin's Western Isles, p. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Oh, to see a Missionary, and Christian Teachers, planted on every island of the New Hebrides! The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals In France, in the western parts of Great Britain and the Hebrides, the craters have long since become extinct. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest “Then how came it that the father and son were lost in the yacht off the Hebrides?” asked Dear Jones. Humorous Ghost Stories As we have seen, colonization in the New Hebrides was begun by the whalers, who had several stations in the southern islands. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Longfellow has told us of "His cruisings o'er the seas, Westward to the Hebrides, And to Scilly's rocky shore;" and he was probably not the only Norse Viking whose keel touched here. The Cornwall Coast He saluted me graciously as "de great Missionary of de New Hebrides." The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals He lost his life in an attempt to retain the Hebrides Islands, claimed by Scotland. Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark “What about a secret German naval base in the Hebrides?” The Mystery of the Green Ray A few small steamers and schooners ply at irregular intervals between Nouméa and the New Hebrides. Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific In the New Hebrides it appears that the people prefer to eat it dried, or 'jerked.' The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 My commission was to awaken an interest among the Presbyterian Churches of our Colonies in this New Hebrides Mission which lay at their doors, up till this time sustained by Scotland and Nova Scotia alone. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals |
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