Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/18


 * ... that HMS Vidal, the ship sent to annexe Rockall (flag hoisting pictured), was named after Alexander Vidal, the first man to properly survey the islet?
 * ... that according to a medieval source, Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides, but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
 * ... that the St Kilda field mouse lives 100 mi off the coast of Scotland, and is twice the size of mainland mice?
 * ... that the Orcadian Sea Mither confines the nuckelavee?