Eigg
| Eigg (Eige) | |
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean |
| Archipelago | Small Isles , Inner Hebrides |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 54 ′ 12 ″ N , 6 ° 9 ′ 19 ″ W |
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| length | 9 km |
| width | 5 km |
| surface | 30.5 km² |
| Highest elevation |
At Sgurr 394 m |
| Residents | 105 3.4 inhabitants / km² |
| main place | Cleadale |
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Eigg ( Scottish Gaelic : ) is one of the "small islands" ( English Small Isles ) that the Scottish Inner Hebrides belong. It has a population of 105 people (as of 2017). In 1997 the island was bought by the inhabitants.
The largest settlement on Eigg is Cleadale on the north coast. It is known for its quartz beach, which is called "singing sand" because of the noises made when a person walks on the dry beach. Ferries run from Galmisdale on the south coast to Canna , Rum and Muck and to Mallaig on the mainland. Galmisdale is also home to the island's community center.
description
The center of the island forms a plateau with a moor that rises almost 400 meters high. In An Sgurr (394 m), the highest mountain on the island, there is a significant deposit of pitch stone .
The monastery of Kildonan was founded by St. Donan , a disciple of Colomban . St. Donan suffered the here 618 martyrdom . In the Middle Ages the island belonged to the Ranald MacDonald clan . In the course of a feud with the MacLeods , the entire population was killed at the end of the 16th century.
The island has two caves with the Cathedral Cave and the Massacre Cave .
The Gaelic name Eige is the genitive of Eag (German: notch, ground sink ) and probably refers to the shape of the mountain An Sgurr or the large valley that stretches across the island. The island had another name: Eilean nam Ban mòra (German: "the island of tall women").
power supply
Until 2008, the individual households supplied themselves with diesel generators . Since 2008, an energy supply company was founded as a community project of the residents and an island network was set up that supplies the island with 95 percent renewable energies . The main components are three hydropower plants with 100, 9 and 8 kW, four wind power plants with 6 kW each and photovoltaic systems with 50 kW. A battery storage device , dimensioned for 24 hours, provides energy in times when there is a lack of renewable energies. Two diesel generators with 80 kW each are available as an emergency variant. In order not to exceed the supply of renewable energies as far as possible, the maximum output for households is limited to 5 kW and for companies to 10 kW. The length of the high-voltage network is 11 km.
Historical maps
Egg in the Small Isles group in Willem Blaeus Atlas of Scotland (1654)
Map from 1892
Aerial view
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Balancing on eggshells: The Scottish People's Republic of Eigg , feature by Hannelore Hippe, broadcast in the local exploration serieson August 19, 2014 on Deutschlandfunk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gazetteer , p. 108
- ↑ Eigg has more than 100 residents for the first time in the tiny island's recent history. BBC-online, April 17, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017 .
- ↑ This island is not for sale: how Eigg fought back. The Guardian, September 26, 2017, accessed October 3, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=422
- ↑ Iain Mac to Tailleir ( Memento of March 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), (pdf), "Placenames", page 45, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba (English)
- ↑ SMA: Description of the island power supply on Eigg
- ↑ System description on Eigg Electric
literature
- Dominik Prantl: The island of the indomitable. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Travel. June 28, 2017.