Sound of Taransay, Harris Outer Hebrides 1960s Dixon

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The Atlantic Coast of Harris, Outer Hebrides - Atlantic surf breaking on the rocky shores of Sound of Taransay - in distance North Hills of Harris rising from West Loch Tarbert
• Publisher:  J Arthur Dixon
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  3d. deep lilac Machin
• Postmark(s):  illeg. cds
• Sent to:  Cranleigh, Surrey
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Harris (also Scottish Gaelic: Na Hearadh, pronounced [n? 'h????]) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris, which is the former postal county and the current post town for Royal Mail postcodes starting HS3 or HS5. See HS postcode area. A person from Harris is known as a Hearach.

Harris is most likely to be the island referred to as Adru (meaning thick, stout or bulky) on Ptolemy's map of the British Isles. In Old Norse, a Hérað was a type of administrative district, and the name may derive from that.^[2] An alternative origin is the Norse Haerri, meaning "higher" - a reference to the high hills, especially in comparison with the much flatter Lewis lying to the north.^[3] Most of the place names on Harris are Gaelicized Old Norse.

Harris divides naturally into northern and southern parts which are separated by West and East Loch Tarbert. These halves are joined by a narrow isthmus at the main settlement of Tarbert (An Tairbeart or Tairbeart na Hearadh).

The bedrock of Harris is largely Lewisian gneisses, which were laid down in the Precambrian period, interspersed with igneous intrusions. One of these intrusions forms the summit plateau of the mountain Roinebhal. The rock here is anorthosite, and is similar in composition to rocks found in the mountains of the Moon.^[4][5]

Harris is a part of historic Inverness-shire, and was administered as such under older administrative divisions. In the 2001 census, Harris had a usually resident population of 1,984.^[1]