Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/1


 * ... that the ruined Cill Chriosd (pictured), also known as Kilchrist or Christ's Church, was the parish church of Strathaird, Skye, until 1840?
 * ... that the Moine Supergroup, a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands, is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland?
 * ... that the battleship SMS Bayern (1915) was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns?
 * ... that Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?