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Fuday

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Gaelic name
  
Fùideigh

Area rank
  
101

Country
  
Scotland

Council area
  
Outer Hebrides

OS grid reference
  
NF736082

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Area
  
232 ha

Lieutenancy area
  
Outer Hebrides

Fuday httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Highest elevation
  
Mullach Neacail 89 metres (292 ft)

Island groups
  
British Isles, Outer Hebrides

Fuday (Fuideigh) is an uninhabited island of about 232 hectares (0.90 square miles) in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It lies in the Sound of Barra, just east of Scurrival Point on Barra and west of Eriskay. Fuday is owned by the Scottish Government. Deserted since 1901, its peak population is recorded only as seven.

Map of Fuday, United Kingdom

It is still used for the summer grazing of cattle, and they used to be swum across the mile-wide, but shallow, Caolas Fuideach (strait) to there from Eoligarry. When cattle were first introduced to the island, they were killed by dehydration. The crofters who left the cattle on the island failed to show the animals the location of the only drinkable source of water on the island, a loch far inland on the island. The cattle thus could not find drinking water and died of thirst.

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Fuday Wikipedia