Talk:Mingulay

Old comments
The Wikipedia page says Mingulay has been abandoned since 1934. The Lonely Isles page says ""Mingulay has a long history of settlement with many archaeological sites in evidence, but its population rapidly declined from a total of 135 inhabitants in 1901 to none in 1912 when Mingulay lost its community for good.". I know it's still true to say it's been abandoned since 1934 if it was abandoned earlier, but can anyone confirm whether the Lonely Isles information is accurate? DavidFarmbrough 08:24, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I checked with Haswell_Smith's The Scottish Islands, which is about the most authorative book on the general subject and he says gives 1912 as the date of abandonment too.--JBellis 14:35, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Substantial expansion uploaded today. Although there is a separate Mingulay Boat Song article it is uncategorised, unreferenced and generally begging for clean up, so I included the key information here. Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

in fiction
Mingulay is the name of an isolated human colony in Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep et seq. Now I know why! &mdash;Tamfang 19:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

GA nomination
While reviewing the article for GA I noticed that the lead does not really summarise the article. Some of the stuff about the retreat of ice and geology should probably go into the Geography and prehistory section. Additionally more could be added to the lead regarding the overall history and culture of the island, and in particular its current condition. Other than that I thought the article was very good and look forward to being able to pass it in a couple of days. - Suicidalhamster 01:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The new lead is much better and means that the article passes the GA criteria in my opinion. Passing article. - Suicidalhamster 22:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Mingulay Reef and shark spawning grounds
BBC article makes it look like there is a chunk to add to this page. EdwardLane (talk) 08:36, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

More primitive than St Kilda
There are many reasons why Mingulay should have been "more primitive" than St Kilda. To say that "Mingulay is less than a third of the distance from "The Long Island" that Hirta is, yet a 19th-century visitor commented that the former was "much more primitive than St Kilda, especially as regards the cottars' and crofters' houses", suggesting that the lack of a permanent landing was of greater import than sheer distance" is false. Lack of a permanent landing, or distance from the Long Island, are not necessarily even relevant to "primitiveness". Natural wealth, fishing, agricultural methods, soils, weather, religion, landownership etc are all more likely to be determinants of primitiveness.Royalcourtier (talk) 05:26, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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