Isle Ristol, the innermost of the Summer Isles in Scotland, is a

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Reserve. Lying roughly north of

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, it is a tidal island, in Loch an Alltain Duibh, that is separated by a narrow channel from Old Dorney Bay. Access is by boat from Old Dornie. Over fifty higher species have been identified amongst the flora on the Isle Ristol

machair A machair (; sometimes machar in English) is a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on part of the northwest coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides. The best examples are found on North and South Uist, Harri ...

, amongst which are

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and adder's tongue. Isle Ristol was a site of a British Fishery Society station in the late 18th century.

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Tidal islands of Scotland Summer Isles Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area) {{Highland-geo-stub