Portal:Scotland/Did you know/24




 * ...that the Carron (pictured), a river in central Scotland only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?


 * ...that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay was abandoned by its residents in 1912?


 * ...that Beinn a' Ghlò is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI?


 * ... that Fowlsheugh cliffs, attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?