Dùn
| Dùn | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Yawan fili | 0.77 km² |
| Labarin ƙasa | |
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| Tsarin Daidaiton Labarin Kasa | 57°47′41″N 8°33′11″W / 57.7946°N 8.553°W |
| Bangare na |
St Kilda (en)  |
| Kasa | Birtaniya |
| Territory |
Outer Hebrides (en) |
| Flanked by | Tekun Atalanta |
| Ƙasantuwa a yanayin ƙasa |
St Kilda (en) Outer Hebrides (en) |
| Hydrography (en) | |
Dùn tsibiri ne a St Kilda, Scotland. Yana da kusan mil 1 (kilomita 1.6) tsayi. Sunansa kawai yana nufin "fort" a cikin Scottish Gaelic (don ƙarin bayani, duba "dun"), amma katangar kanta ta ɓace - tsoffin taswira sun nuna shi akan Gob an Dùin (NF109972), wanda yake a ƙarshen teku.[1]
Karamin tsibirin gida ne ga mafi girman mallaka na fulmars a Biritaniya. Kafin 1828, St Kilda ita ce kawai wurin kiwo tsibirin Birtaniyya, amma tun daga lokacin suka bazu kuma suka kafa mallaka a wasu wurare, kamar a Fowlsheugh.[2]
Dùn, wanda ke kare Village Bay da ke Hirta daga iskar kudu-maso-yamma, an haɗa shi da Hirta a wani lokaci ta hanyar baka. MacLean (1972), ya nuna cewa baka ya karye lokacin da galleon ya buge shi da ya guje wa cin nasara na Armada, amma wasu kafofin, irin su Mitchell (1992), suna ba da ƙarin bayani mai mahimmanci (idan ƙarancin soyayya) cewa ɗayan manyan guguwa da yawa da ke lalata tsibirin kowane hunturu.[3][4]
Manazarta.
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]- ↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish The Scottish Islands
- ↑ Fisher, James & Waterston, George (Nov. 1941) The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of The Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) in the British Isles. Edinburgh. The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 2 pp. 204-272. Retrieved 24 March 2007
- ↑ Fisher, James & Waterston, George (Nov. 1941) The Breeding Distribution, History and Population of The Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) in the British Isles. Edinburgh. The Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 2 pp. 204–272.
- ↑ MacLean, Charles Island on the Edge of the World: the Story of St. Kilda, Canongate, 1977