North Rona Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Scottish island in the North Atlantic
About North Rona
St Kildahas become a symbol of remoteness in the British Isles, but it's not the most remote spot (40 miles / 64 km from populated North Uist), and is certainly not forgotten. Its last 36 residents were evacuated in 1930 in a time of press photography, oral history and documentary film-making, and boat trips visit to see its abandoned village. Rona by contrast has been forgotten as completely as if it sank beneath the waves 8000 years ago along with the Dogger Bank. Rona is barely habitable, made of the same gneiss bedrock as Lewis and thus with similar poor soil for farming. Its population was wiped out by starvation in 1685 and almost again in 1695 by a boating disaster. Its last inhabitant was a shepherd, Donald M'Leod, and when he left for Lewis in 1844 he was just a drop in the wave
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