Barra Isles

The group consists of nine islands and numerous rocky islets, skerries, and sea stacks.

Berneray (also known as Barra Head), Pabbay, Sandray and Mingulay have been inhabited in the past.

The four smallest named islands are Flodday, Lingay, Muldoanich and Uineasan.

It reaches 72 metres (236 ft) in height and there is a ruined prehistoric fort on the southern side.

Francis G. Thompson describes it as "high and virtually inaccessible";[2] James Fisher mentions a "fulmar flying up and down its tiny cliff.