Isle Of Benbecula
Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides, in the Atlantic Sea off the west coast of Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a normally resident population of 1,283, with a large percentage of Roman Catholics. It develops part of the area carried out by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar or the Western Isles Council. The island has to do with 12 kilometres from west to east and also a similar range from north to southern. It lies in between the islands of North Uist as well as South Uist; it is attached to both by roadway causeways. Travel to any one of the other Hebridean islands, or to the British mainland, is by air or sea. Benbecula Airport on the island has day-to-day trips to Glasgow, Stornoway as well as Barra. A straight service to Inverness was introduced in 2006 but terminated in May 2007. There are no direct ferryboat services from Benbecula to the mainland, yet a service operated by Caledonian MacBrayne from Lochboisdale on South Uist provides a five-hour crossing to Oban on the landmass, whilst another service from Lochmaddy on North Uist provides a two-hour going across to Uig on the Inner Hebridean island of Skye, and also hence to the mainland by means of the Skye Bridge. Ferry services from the islands of Berneray (connected by embankment to North Uist) as well as Eriskay (connected to South Uist) link to the other Outer Hebridean islands of Harris and Barra specifically. There is a thick cluster of lochs throughout practically the whole island, as well as nearly all of the island is below 20 metres in elevation.
