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    Lunga

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    56°13′N 5°42′W

    Lunga is one of the Slate Islands in the Firth of Lorn in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The "Grey Dog" tidal race, which runs in the sea channel to the south, reaches 8 knots (15 km/h) in full flood.

    Barr Sligeig, on Lunga
    Barr Sligeig, on Lunga

    M J Richardson / CC BY-SA 2.0

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    56°13′N 5°42′W

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    Lunga is one of the Slate Islands in the Firth of Lorn in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The "Grey Dog" tidal race, which runs in the sea channel to the south, reaches 8 knots (15 km/h) in full flood. The name "Lunga" is derived from the Old Norse for "isle of the longships', but almost all other place names are Gaelic in origin. The population was never substantial and today the main activity is an adventure centre on the northern headland of Rubha Fiola. The surrounding seas are fished for prawns and scallops and there is a salmon farm off the south eastern shores. The Special Area of Conservation of which the island is part hosts a growing number of outdoor leisure pursuits. Lunga is a complex island made of several separate parts that are connected at low tides but which "disintegrate" at higher states of the tidal cycle. The largest of these outliers are Fiola Meadhonach and Rubha Fiola (also known as North and South Fullah), Eilean Iosal and Fiola an Droma.

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    • Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
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