Qualla: Lunga, Firth of Lorn https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lunga, Firth of Lorn https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn Lunga, Firth of Lorn: Introduction https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit C Henderson, CC BY-SA 3.0. At low water Lunga is one island. At high water it is several. The Firth of Lorn rises and falls around its low ground and slices it into Rubha Fiola, Fiola Meadhonach, Eilean Iosal and Fiola an Droma - a chain of tidal islets connected and disconnected by the moon. To the south the Bealach a' Choin Ghlais, the pass of the grey dog, runs at eight knots in full flood, fast enough that an 1845 description warned no boat could be forced through. Lunga keeps its old Norse name - isle of the longships - but everything else here is Gaelic.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/gcgz-lunga-firth-of-lorn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lunga, Firth of Lorn: Where the Names Come From https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit Colin Kinnear, CC BY-SA 2.0. Almost every feature on Lunga has a Gaelic name that means something specific about the landscape. Bidean na h-Iolaire, the island's high point, is the peak of the eagle. Camas a Mhor-Fhir, the main bay to the south, is the bay of the giant. Poll nan Corran, the only other anchor...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/gcgz-lunga-firth-of-lorn-where-the-names-come-from.mp3 0:06 2 full Lunga, Firth of Lorn: Not the Other Lunga https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit Clydiee, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is another Lunga in the Treshnish Isles, west of Mull, famous for its summer puffins and its dramatic basalt stack called the Harp Rock. This is not that Lunga. This is the Lunga of the Slate Islands, less visited and stranger - geologically distinct from its neighbours, ma...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/gcgz-lunga-firth-of-lorn-not-the-other-lunga.mp3 0:06 3 full Lunga, Firth of Lorn: A Quietly Shrinking Census https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0. The recorded population of Lunga reached its high point in 1794 with twenty-nine people. By 1891 only fifteen remained. By 1931, five. The graves of the islanders are in the churchyard at Kilchattan on Luing to the north. The island was not permanently inhabited through most of t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/gcgz-lunga-firth-of-lorn-a-quietly-shrinking-census.mp3 0:06 4 full Lunga, Firth of Lorn: Underwater Country https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0. The waters around Lunga are part of the Firth of Lorn Marine Special Area of Conservation, and the seabed here is dense with life that fast tides protect. The seafan anemone Amphianthus dohrnii, rare in British waters, finds refuge in the sheltered hollows near the salmon farm. K...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/z/lunga-firth-of-lorn-wp/gcgz-lunga-firth-of-lorn-underwater-country.mp3 0:06 5 full Lunga, Firth of Lorn: The Bumpy Ride https://qualla.com/lunga-firth-of-lorn/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Almost no one comes to Lunga today on purpose. The boat trips that thread the islands are usually heading somewhere else - to Corryvreckan, to Mull, to the Garvellachs - and treat Lunga as scenery on the way. Sea kayakers know it as a campsite with consequences: the Grey Dog need...

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