Neave Island
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Neave Island is an island on the north coast of the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 mainland.

Neave Island is a small rugged island to the east of Eilean nan Ròn
Eilean nan Ròn
Eilean nan Ròn is an island near Skerray, in the north of Sutherland, Scotland. 350 seal pups are born here annually.-History:Eilean nan Ròn was populated for many years, with seventy three people living there in 1881 and 30 in 1931. It has been uninhabited since 1938...

 in Sutherland, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel, Caol Beag.. It lies between Bettyhill
Bettyhill
Bettyhill is a village on the north coast of Scotland.Bettyhill lies on the A836 road west of Thurso and from Tongue. And 5 miles from the village of Skerray Its former fishing port was called Navermouth...

 and Tongue
Tongue, Highland
Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal...

and has a sandy beach at the eastern end There are remains of an ancient church.

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