Fishing boats hauled clear of the tides at Bagh Chornaig, Isle of Vatersay, Hebrides Western Isles, Scotland. SCO 6886
Construction began on a 250m causeway in 1989, and it officially came into use in July 1991. There are reports that the causeway had been used even before the road was laid along its top: and another oddity was that it was never formally opened. The causeway cost £ and consumed nearly a quarter of a million tonnes of rock, most of it quarried from the Barra hillside immediately to the north. The effect has been to transform access to and from Vatersay and bring stability to the population to ensure that Vatersay will never go the way of Mingulay and other abandoned outlying islands in the Western Isles. In 2001 it was home to 94 people.
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Location: Bagh Chornaig, Isle of Vatersay, Hebrides Western Isles, Scotland
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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