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The Island of Swona
Swona is about 1¼ miles long by about ½ mile wide. It is made up of Old Red Sandstone with cliffs on the east coast. There are prehistoric, pre-Norse and Norse remains on the island but it has been uninhabited since 1975. The island is part of the Pentland Firth Islands Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is home to thousands of breeding seabirds, including a colony of Arctic tern on the northern part of the island, and Atlantic puffin which burrow into the hillside.
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