A small party of tourists on board a high-speed motor launch to Handa Island from Tabatt in the northwest coast of Scotland, Britain. The island is

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A small party of tourists on board a high-speed motor launch to Handa Island from Tabatt in the northwest coast of Scotland, Britain. The island is owned by Balfore, and managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust. It is a thriving location for large colonies of seabirds, many nesting on the Torridonian sandstone cliffs. It is also a nature reserve. Humans inhabited Handa Island for many centuries, surviving on a diet of potatoes, fish and seabirds. The islanders even had their own queen and parliament. The last of the island's eight families immigrated for Nova Scotia in Canada during the potato famine in 1847. Today, the island has no permanent human residents except the few remains of crofter ruins.

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Location: Handa Island
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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