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Shaping the Landscape

Ronas Voe, Northmaven Ronas Voe, NorthmavenZoomThe varied landscape that you can see today has developed through the action of wind, ice and water on rocks of varying hardness, leaving uplands of granite, cliffs of volcanic rock and gentle valleys of limestone.

Freeze-thawSea-level riseCoastal erosion