Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/13


 * ... that the Devonian Orcadian Basin once contained a lake estimated to be hundreds of kilometres across, forming distinctive sediments (pictured) in which a diverse fauna of fossil fish has been found?
 * ...that the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
 * ... that the Tobermory whisky distillery is located in the village made famous by the children's television show Balamory?
 * ... that according to tradition, the horn Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull, sometime during the 14th century, now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod?