Everything about Ardnamurchan totally explained
Ardnamurchan (
Scottish Gaelic:
Àird nam Murchan: land of the great seas) is a 50
square mile peninsula in
Lochaber,
Highland,
Scotland, noted for being very unspoilt and undisturbed. It contains an abundance of wildlife. Its remoteness is accentuated by the main access route being a
single track road for much of its length. Ardnamurchan has one of the highest concentration of Gaelic speakers on the mainland.
Historically part of the former
county of
Argyll, it's now part of the Lochaber
committee area of the Highland
unitary authority.
Strictly speaking Ardnamurchan covers only the peninsula beyond the villages of
Salen (in the south) and
Acharacle (in the north), but nowadays the term is used much more generally to include the neighbouring districts of
Sunart,
Ardgour,
Morvern, and even
Moidart (which was part of the former county of
Inverness-shire, not Argyll).
Ardnamurchan Point, which has a 36 metre tall
lighthouse built on it, is commonly described as the
most westerly point in the
British mainland although
Corrachadh Mòr (a kilometre to the south) is a few metres further west.
The population of the whole peninsula is around 2000.
Villages in Ardnamurchan:
Ardnamurchan is widely considered by many who visit it to be one of the most stunning natural parts of the Scottish coast. It is beautiful, utterly wild and unspoilt. The most stunning of all perhaps, is Ardnamurchan Point, which is also the furthest westerly point on the British Mainland. Here there's a lighthouse, and in addition, a view from a sheer rock face of the open Atlantic Ocean with only the wind and sun for company.
The whole north western corner of Ardnamurchan is a large "
caldera" which is a crater left behind by a collapsed volcano and makes Ardnamurchan popular with geologists where the tapping of geology hammers to obtain samples can often be heard in the summer months. The rings of the caldera can easily be seen in the satellite photograph.
Wildlife is special on Ardnamurchan where rare species such as wildcats, pine martin, golden eagles and
white tailed eagles can be seen.
One of Ardnamurchan's most famous sons is the button box
accordion player,
Fergie MacDonald. The Peninsula also has its own
shinty team,
Ardnamurchan Camanachd.
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