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Uninhabited Scottish island
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North Rona is the most remote island in Britain to have been inhabited long-term. It can be considered the outermost of the Outer Hebrides, but it's as far away from the rest of that archipelago as it is from mainland Scotland - 44 miles / 71 km. Its last resident left in 1844. Historically its name was simply Rona (Scottish Gaelic: Rònaigh) but that name is also given to an island near Skye in the Inner Hebrides, similarly now referred to as South Rona.
You need to come in a covered boat, it's too far out for a Rib. However there's no harbour or sheltered anchorage, so you then transfer to a Rib or similar dingy to get ashore.
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