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Innis Mhòr is a tidal island in the Dornoch Firth of Easter Ross off the east coast of Scotland. It is about in extent and is largely, if not exclusively made up of moving sand dunes. No point on the island is greater than above sea level. It has almost certainly never been permanently inhabited. The nearest settlement is Inver to the south, (which is west of Portmahomack) and the town of Tain is to the east. Scotland's north and west coasts have over 700 islands all told.〔("Scotland in Short" ) (2003) (pdf) Scottish Executive. Retrieved 29 November 209.〕 Innis Mhòr is one of the few east coast islands, only 4 of which exceed in size.〔The others are Mugdrum in the Firth of Tay and the Isle of May and Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth.〕 The extensive tidal Whiteness Sands lie between Innis Mhòr and the Easter Ross coast, with the headland of Rubh' na h-Innse Moire lying to the west of the island. Inland there is the Morrich More, an extensive area of dune grassland with wetland communities,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Loch Eye, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region ) 〕 and a grade 1 SSSI, and RAF Tain, a bombing range on an alluvial plain known as the Fendom.〔Hansom, JD and Black, SDL (1996) ("The Geomorphology of Morrich More: Management Prescription Review" ) (pdf) SNH. Retrieved 29 November 2009.〕 The area includes the most extensive area () of salt marsh in the Highlands. The island is part of the Dornoch Firth National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland.〔("National Scenic Areas" ). SNH. Retrieved 30 Mar 2011.〕 Local birdlife includes important populations of osprey (10 pairs representing about 10% of the UK breeding population), bar-tailed godwit, greylag goose and wigeon and numerous more common species such as curlew, dunlin, oystercatcher and teal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dornoch Firth and Loch Fleet SPA )〕 There are no other islands nearby, although a sandy spit to the south is marked as ''Innis Bheag'' (meaning "small island") on some maps and is also referred to as Paterson Island.〔〔''Road Atlas of Britain'' (1978) p. 87〕 ==References== * * ''Road Atlas of Britain'' (1978) London; Bartholomew. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Innis Mhòr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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