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Ardnamurchan & Area
Ardnamurchan Point (56° 43′ 33″ N, 6° 13′ 27″ W; NM 416 674) is the western extremity of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Scotland, and is just north of Corrachadh Mor, the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain.
The point lies seven miles south of the island of Muck, with Eigg and Rùm a few miles further north. Coll is situated nine miles to the west, and Mull is five miles south.
Near the cape there is a 36 metre tall, pink granite lighthouse built in 1849 by Alan Stevenson. It is the only lighthouse in the UK built in the Egyptian style. Nowadays, the light is operated remotely by the Northern Lighthouse Board and the original housing for the lighthouse keepers now contains a museum called the 'Kingdom of Light' - Rioghachd na Sorcha, run by the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Trust,
The nearest settlement is the small village, Achosnich.
Ardnamurchan means 'the great ocean' in Gaelic. You can read the article and find additional references on the original wiki article.
Ardnamurchan - a dramatically beautiful area of the west coast of Scotland, a haven of peace and tranquillity and known to many as Scotland's last great Wilderness
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