| 词条 | Eilean Chathastail |
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|coordinates = {{coord|56.875|-6.129|display=inline}} |location_map=Scotland Lochaber |MapCaption=Eilean Chathastail shown within Lochaber |GridReference=NM485835 |official_name= |celtic name=Eilean Chathastail |norse name= |area= {{convert|25|ha|sqmi|01}}[1] |area rank= |highest elevation= {{convert|35|m|ft|0}} |Population=0 |main settlement= |island group=Small Isles |local authority=Highland |references=[2] |Image=Eilean Chathastail.JPG |ImageCaption=The north end of Eilean Chathastail from Eigg }} Eilean Chathastail (Eng: Castle Island[2]) is one of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. GeographyEilean Chathastail protects the only harbour on Eigg at Galmisdale. It is roughly {{convert|1|km|yards}} in length and lies only {{convert|100|m|yards}} off the south-east coast of the island of Eigg. Eigg lighthouse was built on the island in 1906 by brothers David A. and Charles Alexander Stevenson. HistoryIn July 1884 the geologist and writer Hugh Miller arrived at the Eilean Chathastail anchorage on board the yacht Betsey. He had just begun his journey at Tobermory and he produced a diary of his travels in the Hebrides for the newspaper Witness, of which he was the editor. His contributions were later collated and published as The Cruise of the Betsey in 1856.[3] He wrote that: "We passed the Isle of Muck, with its one low hill; saw the pyramidal mountains of Rum looming tall in the offing; and then, running along the Isle of Eigg, with its colossal Scuir rising between us and the sky, as if it were a piece of Babylonian wall, or the great wall of China, only vastly larger, set down on the ridge of a mountain, we entered the channel which separates the isle from one of its dependencies, Eilean Chathastail, and cast anchor in the tideway."[4] Robert Lawrie Thomson, a former laird of Eigg, is buried at the southern end of Eilean Chathastail. This is marked by a burial enclosure on Maol an Eilean, the island's highest point.[5] Notes1. ^Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011. 2. ^1 {{Haswell-Smith}} 3. ^Bray (1996) pp. 222-24, 233 4. ^Bray (1996) p. 226, quoting The Cruise of the Betsey 5. ^{{Canmore |num=305951 |desc=Eigg, Eilean Chathastail |access-date=14 August 2012}} References
External links{{Commons category|Eilean Chathastail}}{{coord|56|52|20|N|6|7|30|W|region:GB_type:island|display=title}}{{Small Isles}} 2 : Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area)|Small Isles, Lochaber |
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