Sound of Jura and Jura, Argyll
The Sound of Jura is a strait of water in Argyll lying to the east of the island of Jura and to the west of Knapdale, part of a peninsula of the Scottish mainland. Lochs that lead to the sound include Loch Sween and Loch Caolisport. The north end of the Sound of Jura is particularly treacherous and is filled with skerries, small islands, strong tidal currents and whirlpools. The Gulf of Corryvreckan, which contains a notorious whirlpool and the world's third largest, leads from the north of the Sound of Jura. The south end, in contrast, is much wider and more open and most of the small islands and reefs are close into shore.
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is separated from the Knapdale district of Argyll to the east by the Sound of Jura and from the island of Islay to the south west by the Sound of Islay. To the north, the Strait of Corryvreckan, with its notorious whirlpools, separates Jura from the island of Scarba. Jura extends 27 miles north east to south west and is 8 miles at its widest. It rises to a height of 2571 feet at Beinn an Oir, one of the three distinctive conical peaks known as the Paps of Jura. Jura is nearly bisected in to 2 separate islands by Loch Tarbert. Compared with its fertile and more populous neighbour of Islay, Jura is mountainous, bare and infertile and it is covered largely by vast areas of blanket bog, hence its very small population. Most of the island's population live in Craighouse which sits on a bay on the east coast protected by a string of islets known as the Small Isles. A 19th century whisky distillery here was reopened in 1963. A single road follows the east coast as far north as Inverlussa and a track continues northwards from here past Barnhill where the novelist George Orwell spent much of his final years and where he wrote “1984”.
Date: 5th November 2017
Location: view from B8024 between Kilberry and Ormsary, Knapdale, Argyll looking west towards Jura
Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is separated from the Knapdale district of Argyll to the east by the Sound of Jura and from the island of Islay to the south west by the Sound of Islay. To the north, the Strait of Corryvreckan, with its notorious whirlpools, separates Jura from the island of Scarba. Jura extends 27 miles north east to south west and is 8 miles at its widest. It rises to a height of 2571 feet at Beinn an Oir, one of the three distinctive conical peaks known as the Paps of Jura. Jura is nearly bisected in to 2 separate islands by Loch Tarbert. Compared with its fertile and more populous neighbour of Islay, Jura is mountainous, bare and infertile and it is covered largely by vast areas of blanket bog, hence its very small population. Most of the island's population live in Craighouse which sits on a bay on the east coast protected by a string of islets known as the Small Isles. A 19th century whisky distillery here was reopened in 1963. A single road follows the east coast as far north as Inverlussa and a track continues northwards from here past Barnhill where the novelist George Orwell spent much of his final years and where he wrote “1984”.
Date: 5th November 2017
Location: view from B8024 between Kilberry and Ormsary, Knapdale, Argyll looking west towards Jura
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