Scarba

Scarba [ s̪kaɾapə ] is an uninhabited island of the Inner Hebrides. It lies north of the island of Jura, and is separated from it by the Strait of Corryvreckan. The barren island extends a maximum of about five kilometers from north to south and about four kilometers in an east-west direction. The Cruach Scarba with a height of 449 m, the highest point on the island. There are assumptions that the islands Scarba, Jura and Islay were once part of a large peninsula and were separated during the ice ages of the island of Great Britain.

The vegetation of Scarba is determined by grass and heather. On the island lives deer and wild goats and otters. Furthermore, there grazing sheep and cattle.

Former settlements were mainly on the east coast of the island. Kilmory Lodge, which are the owners of the island temporarily inhabited, and an investor in the Bay Bagh Gleann a ' Mhaoil ​​the only permanent structures.