Ullapool

Ullapool is a coastal village in the administrative district ( Council Area ), Highland, Scotland on Loch Broom. With its 1,500 inhabitants (NRS 2010) is Ullapool the largest settlement in the very sparsely populated north-west Highlands.

Ullapool was founded in 1788 as a port for the herring fishery. The harbor is still the center of the place and also serves as a focal point for fishing boats and yachts as well as for the Caledonian MacBrayne ferries - to Stornoway on Lewis, the main island of the Outer Hebrides. Ullapool has a small museum, an exhibition hall, a swimming pool and numerous pubs. For hikers and tourists, the small town is also a central point as for visitors to the Outer Hebrides. Backpackers here have the opportunity to camp at a campground located right on the fjord or to stay in a backpackers hostel. A popular hiking destination is about 10 km to the north Stac Pollaidh. South of Ullapool are several Munros such as An Teallach or Sgùrr Mòr goals for mountaineers and Munro -Bagger.

During World War I, gave the painter and graphic artist Oskar Kokoschka and his wife Olda for several summer months and drew with colored pencil ( a technique he has developed only for themselves in Scotland) as well as watercolors many landscape views from the surrounding area.

Since 2005, the music festival will be held Loopallu in September. It attracts a large amount of visitors from the region and from outside.

In Ullapool sends the ( claims to ) Britain's smallest radio station, Lochbroom FM.

Impact structure

Near Ullapool before about 1.2 billion years ago the largest known meteorite impact of the British Isles occurred. Ejecta from the impact crater thereby formed is found within a radius of up to 50 kilometers around the place. The crater itself is today, however, no longer visible at the surface.