Rathlin Island by myrrhluz
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This is Rathlin Island taken from Carrick island, both part of Northern Ireland.
The following information is from www.raghery.com, a very interesting site:
People have lived on Rathlin Island for 8000 years or more.
There are less than 100 people here during the winter, though that number increases in the summer due to tourism.
In 1987 Sir Richard Branson crashed near the island after a record-breaking Atlantic hot-air balloon crossing. Islanders rescued him and his pilot from the sea. Branson later gave the Rathlin Island Trust twenty-five thousand pounds.
Rathlin Island is where the first recorded Viking raid on Ireland took place in 795AD (the Isle of Skye, off of Scotland, was raided at the same time.)
The strait between Rathlin and the Irish coast is the site of Coire Brecain, a notoriously dangerous whirlpool.
There is a legend, owing much to the writer, Sir Walter Scott, of a cave on the north coast where Robert the Bruce hid after being defeated at the Battle of Perth in 1306. Here he watched a spider patiently trying to spin a web across an impossible gap. The spider's eventual success inspired the Bruce to return to Scotland, where he was victorious at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
There have been repeated massacres on Rathlin. The most famous was in 1575. Sir Francis Drake was in charge of the English Fleet that transported the troops led by Colonel John Norris, to the island. Drake also prevented Scottish ships from arriving to help the island, where 600 men, women, and children were killed. Queen Elizabeth, when informed, told Essex to send word to Norris, "the executioner of his well designed enterprise, that she would not be unmindful of his services."
The first landing by an aircraft on Rathlin Island was in 1938. Due to torrential rain and persistent gale force winds, the island had been cut off from supplies, and the islanders radioed for help. Supplies were brought in, aboard a Westland Wallace K5073, which had to "descend very low and hurdle over the roof of a house. The field selected for landing...was small and exceptionally bumpy..."
There are many photos on the site including a gorgeous image from the inside of a cave.
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