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Eigg lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the south-eastern corner of the islet of Eilean Chathastail, one of the smaller Small Isles about 110 metres (360 ft) off Eigg. [135] The lighthouse was built in 1906 to a design by David A. and Charles Alexander Stevenson ; it is a cylindrical metal tower only 8 metres (26 ft) high with ...
An Sgùrr is the highest hill on the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It was formed 58.72 ± 0.07 million years ago; [1] the result of one of the last eruptions of a volcano, the core of which now forms the Isle of Rùm. Thick viscous pitchstone lava of rhyodacitic composition [2] flowed out, filling a river valley.
The Sgurr of Eigg Pitchstone Formation is a volcanic formation of late Paleocene age exposed on Eigg, part of the Inner Hebrides in Scotland. It is thought to represent a remnant of a much larger deposit that originated from the Skye igneous centre to the northeast, formed by an eruption, possibly with a VEI of 6 or greater.
Eigg Mountain is high plateau (between 225 and 300 metres above sea level), part of the highlands of Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally used as winter hunting grounds by the Mi’kmaq people , Eigg Mountain was settled and farmed in the early nineteenth century by immigrants from Ireland and the Scottish Highlands. [1]
Name. "Small Isles" is the name of the coterminous civil parish and former Church of Scotland parish, [5] originally created in 1726 from part of Sleat parish, the balance of which lies on the much larger island of Skye. The original name of the new parish was Eigg or Short Isles. "In process of time the name was by an easy transition changed ...
Immunoglobulin G. The water-accessible surface area of an IgG antibody. Immunoglobulin G ( IgG) is a type of antibody. Representing approximately 75% of serum antibodies in humans, IgG is the most common type of antibody found in blood circulation. [ 1] IgG molecules are created and released by plasma B cells.
Satellite view of Eigg ( Landsat image viewed using NASA World Wind software). Eilean Chathastail is the island in the bottom right of the picture. Eilean Chathastail protects the only harbour on Eigg at Galmisdale. It is roughly 1 kilometre (1,100 yd) in length and lies only 100 metres (110 yd) off the south-east coast of the island of Eigg.
English: Gravel beach, North-east Isle of Eigg A rare beach in this area of Eigg, useful for coming ashore. Beware the skerry, Bogha Ruadh, which lies 150 metres offshore. Beware the skerry, Bogha Ruadh, which lies 150 metres offshore.