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Berneray, part of North Uist and joined by causeway, has an identity of its own.
The Wikipedia entry on Machair has not one, but two, images of Berneray. So this is a place to visit to experience the phenomenon. A walk around the island gives contact with the sea, shore, dunes and this fertile, luxuriant-looking pasture which features on some of the West Coast of the Mainland and certain of Read More …
Angus MacAskill was born on Berneray in 1825, one of 12 children to parents of average size. He showed nothing abnormal in his rate of growth during a childhood, spent first in Stornoway and then, after the family emigrated, in Cape Breton Island, Canada. However, he started to grow exceptionally tall during adolescence and ten Read More …
The last days of 1998 saw a revolution in the ways of life on Berneray. This was when the £6.6 million causeway unofficially opened and the small ferry sailed for the last time. CalMac services to and from Leverburgh, South Harris, became the crossing to the north and the road on the causeway, of course, Read More …