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XX.—Geology of the Outer Hebrides. Part IV.—South Harris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

T. J. Jehu  and
R. M. Craig
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Harris is supposed to derive its name from the Gaelic “na hardibh,” a designation signifying “the heights.” The term is appropriate in that the most mountainous parts of the Long Island lie within its boundaries.

South Harris forms a natural geographical division for it is divided, from North Harris by a narrow neck of iand at Tarbert separating the eastern from the western seas. This isthmus is less than half a mile across. In addition to South Harris proper, this memoir deals also with the Isle of Scalpay and neighbouring islets off the north-east coast, the Isle of Taran-say on the north-west, and several islands off the south-west coast in the Sound of Harris, of which the principal ones are Ensay, Killegray, Groay, Lingay, and Gilsay.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , 1927 , pp. 457 - 488
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1927

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page 486 note * Some of the most beautifully glaciated and striated surfaces in South Harris are seen on the band of peridotite rock just north of the north-western extremity of Loch Langavat.