Ardnamurchan Point is the most westerly in the UK mainland. It stretches into the Atlantic north-west of the Sound of Mull and is its sheer mass is dominated by Ben Hiant, the dominant mountain in the area.

Ardnamurchan is the landmass stretching from Loch Linnhe in the east and the Atlantic in the west and includes the lands of Morvern, Sunart, Ardnamurchan and Moidart. The last of these has traditionally been in Lochaber rather than Argyll so sadly is beyond the scope of Argyllonline, although we include some useful background information on it.

The peninsula looks south to the Isle of Mull, east to Glencoe and Loch Leven and west to Skye and the Small Isles. One of Scotland’s many empty places, its wild beauty, its forests and many nature reserves make it unforgettable. The mystery of areas like Morvern made all but an island as Loch Sunart cuts eastwards across the peninsula - is the sense that they are "no man's land".



Like the Isle of Mull across the Sound, Ardnamurchan is geologically fascinating, its rocky landscapes forged by a series of pre-historic movements and volcanic events. The Ardnamurchan Natural History Centre at Glenmore has wonderful displays and one of the best audio-visual productions to enthral you.

The main town is Strontian and yes, if the name is oddly but-not-quite familiar, Strontium 90 was discovered here and so named. Acharacle at the foot of Loch Sheil and on the border with Moidart is another important small town alongside the two ferry ports on the Sound of Mull, Lochaline in the east and Kilchoan in the west.

A historical curiosity is that when the islanders of St Kilda in the Atlantic forty miles west of the Outer Hebrides - were evacuated from the island, many were resettled to work in the forests at Lochaline. It is hard to imagine what they must have made of it. Their windswept rocky pinnacle in the ocean offered them neither personal experience nor cultural memory of trees, never mind forests.

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