Portal:Scotland/Did you know/23




 * ...that Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe (pictured), a Munro in Scotland, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?


 * ...in 2005, Adam Bruce became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?


 * ...that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?


 * ...that Craignethan Castle was the last private fortress built in Scotland?