Bottle Island

Bottle Island is an uninhabited small island of the the United Kingdom located in Scotland and belonging to the Summer Isles, a group of islands of the interior Hébrides.

Geography

Bottle Island, directed in the direction south-west-north-is, is located on the west coast of Scotland and is bathed by The Minch. It is surrounded by the island of Priest in the west, by the rock of Sgeir Mhòr in north and by the small islands of Carn Iar and Carn Deas in the North-East which forms a bay bathing the east coast of Bottle Island and is called Na Finlaichean .

The majority of the coasts of the island consist of rocks. The southern part of the island east on the other hand made of a sandy beach of about thirty meters.

The island belongs to the National Scenic Area of Assynt-Coigach.

Fauna and marine flora

Bottle Island is surrounded by a fauna and a marine Flore varied attracted by the Nutriment S brewed by the current sailors of which strongest meet at the Southern end of the island. The flora is primarily represented by a species of Codium ( fragile Codium ) while the marine animal-life is made of sponges, of sea anemones, of Alcyonacea, Balanophyllia ( Balanophyllia elegans ) and of anemones beads but also of Baleine S accompanied by birds by sea.

This marine animal-life makes island a site of Plongée underwater which offers slopes going down to more than 35 meters per place.

Sources

Plunged in Summer Isles
Ordnance Survey - Chart of Bottle Island

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