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Loch Ewe, Scotland
From Inverewe Gardens
Cove,Loch Ewe
This is the place where convoy ships with supplies left during WWII, going to and returning from, Murmansk and Archangel in Russia.
Visit of Valentina Golysheva from Archangel, of the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communications, The Department of English for Humanities Training, who came to Britain to launch her book, A Flashback to the Russian Arctic Convoys, on HMS Belfast, on 8th February 2015. The book is dedicated to her father Georgy Golyshev, 1919-44, senior seaman, motor-mechanic of Northern Naval Fleet in Arkhangelsk, who lost his life at Kara Sea on August 12th 1944 in convoy BD-5. After the launch, Valentina travelled to Loch Ewe to see where the Convoys left for Archangel. George Milne, the Chairman of the Russian Arctic Convoys museum project, and also Francis and Mary, members of the project, helped to make the visit most interesting, showing Valentina and Elena Reid, Chairperson of the Highland-Russia Connection Charity, around the area.
Fionn Loch via Kernsary
A lovely walk from Poolewe to Fionn Loch via Kernsary in the Scottish Highlands
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Sheigra Beach in Sutherland, Scotland
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STAC POLLY AND LOCHOLLY LODGES
Video showing the inside of Stac Polly Cottage and Locholly Lodge and also the surrounding area of Achiltibuie.
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Ullapool & Loch Broom by drone
A flight over Loch Broom and a view of the picturesque fishing port of Ullapool.
Jeremy Paxman & the demise of Loch Maree
Jeremy Paxman endorses S&TC Scotland's seminal Loch Maree film. If the recommendations in the Scottish Parliament's Rural Economy Committee's recent damning report on salmon farming are adopted in full, then the outlook for Loch Maree's sea trout (and wild fish generally in the west Highlands and Islands) will be considerably improved.
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James Merryweather
Gairloch Heritage Museum
NJFF-Hordaland/Gisle Sverdrup (under water sea trout footage)
Alv Arne Lyse (sea trout pictures and farmed salmon)
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Rare 1962 BBC Tonight Gruinard Island Exposé
This video, which was filmed in 1962 and broadcast on the BBC's Tonight show, was hosted by Scottish reporter Fyfe Robertson, who interviewed locals in Gruinard Bay, Scotland. The interviews were fairly probing, as Robertson questioned the locals about the British Government's biological warfare experiments that had occurred nearly twenty years prior. It is important to note that the Gruinard Island X-BASE trials, which were conducted as part of an investigation into the virulence and efficacy of anthrax as a biological weapon against Germany as part of Operation Vegetarian, were not public knowlegde at the time. However, locals did recall much of what went on, as can be seen from this interview.
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Gruinard Island was purposefully contaminated with the Anthrax bacterium in 1942, and experiments continued until the end of the war. Anthrax was tested on sheep to see if it was a viable weapon to deploy against the Germans via a process of dropping cattle cakes infected with Anthrax - Operation Vegetarian.
The scientists not only proved the virulent nature of Anthrax, they also proved it's hardiness as well, and the island was contaminated for nearly fifty years until it was finally declared safe in 1990, and sold back to the owners for £500.
Cleanup started in 1986, and ended in 1990.
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Scotland's Anthrax Island
For decades a Scottish island was a classified death trap after WWII-era testing of biological agents left it completely uninhabitable.
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In 1942, during the Second World War, a biological warfare test was carried out on Gruinard by British military scientists from the Biology Department of Porton Down.[9] The British government was investigating the feasibility of a bioweapons attack using anthrax.[10] It was recognised that tests would cause long-lasting contamination of the immediate area by anthrax spores, so a remote and uninhabited island was required. Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable, and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.[11] Porton Down meteorologist Sir Oliver Graham Sutton was put in charge of a fifty-man team to conduct the trial, with David Henderson in charge of the germ bomb. Biology Department head Paul Fildes made frequent visits.[12]
The anthrax strain chosen was a highly virulent type called Vollum 14578, named after R. L. Vollum, Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Oxford, who supplied it.[13] Eighty sheep were taken to the island and bombs filled with anthrax spores were exploded close to where selected groups were tethered. The sheep became infected with anthrax and began to die within days of exposure.[9]
Some of the experiments were recorded on 16 mm colour movie film, which was declassified in 1997. One sequence shows the detonation of an anthrax bomb fixed at the end of a tall pole supported with guy ropes. After the bomb explodes, a brownish aerosol cloud drifts away towards the target animals. A later sequence shows anthrax-infected sheep carcasses being burned in incinerators at the end of the experiment.[14]
After the tests were completed, scientists concluded that a large release of anthrax spores would thoroughly pollute German cities, rendering them uninhabitable for decades afterwards.[9] Those conclusions were supported when efforts to decontaminate the island after the experiment failed because the spores were so durable.
In 1945, when the island's owner sought its return, the Ministry of Supply recognised that the island was contaminated, and so could not be de-requisitioned until it was deemed safe. In 1946, the government agreed to acquire the island and to take responsibility for it. The owner or her heirs would be able to repurchase the island for £500 when it was declared fit for habitation by man and beast.
For many years, it was judged too hazardous and expensive to decontaminate the island sufficiently to allow public access, and Gruinard Island was quarantined indefinitely. Visits to the island were prohibited, except for periodic checks by Porton Down personnel to determine the level of contamination
Gruinard Island
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately 2 kilometres long by 1 kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. At its closest point to the mainland it is just over 1.1 kilometres offshore. The island was made dangerous for all mammals by experiments with the anthrax bacterium, until it was decontaminated in the late 20th century.
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