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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by PKnight (talk | contribs) at 13:02, 8 November 2006 (Tufa or Tuff?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

There was a lot about this article that needed changing.

  • The distances are imperial and (literally) miles out. If Staffa was only 5 miles from Oban, it would need to cut Mull in half!
  • My map seems fairly sure that Staffa is basically due N of Iona, but I'm leaving that part for now.
  • During the tourist season it is visited every weekday by boat from Oban. That's a long trip! I think the excursions from Oban are much less frequent than that. The main tourist boats sail from Dervaig, Ulva Ferry and Fionnphort.
  • Corrected the gaelic The Herdsman name.
  • A lot of the content on Fingal's Cave should probably go into that article, if it is going to exist at all.
  • The author then seems to waver from a NPOV with a lovely artistic description of the island. I've left that in for now.

Finally, there were a lot of typo's in this. Was it OCR'ed or perhaps copied from a book? It has some relatively recent information, so I hope there isn't any Copyright issue.

More thoughts (22/12/02):

  • There are some really detailed measurements in this article. Did the author go with a measuring tape, or is it from an out of copyright book?
  • Perhaps Fingal's Cave should be left here, with a #REDIRECT to Staffa put on Fingal's Cave.

Ideas?

--DWeir

Could somebody check whether 'tufa' is correct? Tufa (q.v.) is sedimentary, whereas 'tuff' is igneous rock, and seems to me to be more likely on Staffa.

--PKnight

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