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Eriskay

Island of the Outer Hebrides, in Western Isles unitary authority, Scotland, between South Uist and Barra; population (2001) 130. The main occupations are fishing and crofting (a form of subsistence farming). Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, reached Eriskay in 1745, making his first landing on Scottish soil.

In 1941 the SS Politician was shipwrecked on the island, with a cargo of 20,000 cases of whisky. This event inspired Compton Mackenzie's comic novel Whisky Galore (1947) and Alexander Mackendrick's film (1949) of the same title.



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