Dinas Island
Dinas Island ( Welsh Ynys Dinas ) is a roughly round peninsula north of "Dinas Cross", between Fishguard and Cardigan in Pembrokeshire , in Wales .
At Pen-y-Fan, it reaches a height of 142 m above sea level near the coast . Dinas Head is the name of the northern part of the promontory. Dinas Island is a promontory that is geomorphologically partially separated from the mainland - hence the name Iceland. On its land side, in the south, it borders on a swampy valley formed by the melt water of a glacial lake . The flora on Dinas is typical of a windswept cliff environment, with blackberries , ferns, gorse, hazel, blackthorn and hawthorn and, in sheltered locations, also small oaks and ash trees . There are wildflowers such as armeria , calluna , foxglove, heather , orchids , scabiosa, thyme as well as venus navel or rock navel herb. Dinas Island is part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park . The Pembrokeshire Coast Path , a total of 299 km long hiking trail, leads around the peninsula.
Much of Dinas Island is now sheep pasture used by Hendre Farm - owned by the National Trust, the Perkins family and Pwllgwaelod Township. Wild goats lived on the headland until 1947.