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Fidra Island at sunset

Fidra Island is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, north-west of North Berwick, is in fact the inspiration for one of the world's most famous novels.

 

 

Fidra, a rocky wee isle, is home to a lone lighthouse kept company by a small populations of guillemots, razorbills, gulls and puffins.

 

 

And it is this unassuming island that is in fact the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous book Treasure Island .

 

 

He supposedly based the swash-buckling story's treasure map on Fidra, following visits accompanied by his father, who had a large part to play in the design of the lighthouse tower.

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Uploaded on October 10, 2021
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