The Scottish Islands by Hamish Haswell Smith contains the most complete information available on all of the islands of the Scotland. It presents detailed information on each island, beautiful black and white drawings and complete maps. It is a superb tour without leaving home. We are presenting the review of this book in a very different format. We will ask you a series of questions about the islands. You answer each question and email your responses with Island in the subject line. We will email back the right answers.

The Scottish Island Quiz
  1. What island has a town known as the Queen of the Rinns?

  2. Which island is known for a Squrr (We have a picture of it in the magazine)?

  3. Which island had an monastery in AD 542 twenty one years before St. Columba?

  4. Which island contains the most southerly point of the Outer Hebrides?

  5. What island has 12th century twin churches built by Somerlad's daughter?

  6. What island was the once the most westerly inhabited island?

  7. What island has Hoy Sound where the tide run so fast that the surface of sea build high ridges with whirlpools in the troughs?

  8. What island has an ancient church with a tall round tower resembling a factory smoke stack?

  9. What island is know for its two story burial cairns and a stalled cairn with four compartments?

  10. Which island was home to the last manned lighthouse in Scotland. (The keeper's left in April 1998)?

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