Isle of Muck
Note: Needless to say, this map only shows the position of the Isle of Muck within the UK. I cannot imagine that today anybody knows where Capt Orrell landed, but, if I am mistaken, this advice will be very welcome indeed.
ISLE of MUCK: Temporary landing site
Location: The Isle of Muck is situated some 15nm NE of Coll in the Inner Hebrides
NOTES: Some years ago I made this heartfelt entry; “No part of the UK has given me more grief than the western part of Scotland regarding how to try and sensibly categorise and label the various elements.”
In 2010 I discovered and purchased a map published by Quadhurst Maps which gives the extent of all the original Counties in the United Kingdom, (excluding the Republic of Ireland for obvious reasons), and they explain that all these Counties still exist in both legal and geographical terms.
This discovery immediately clarified matters and all I had to do (!) was reorganise the mess created by petty-fogging authorities attempting to re-organise administrative boundaries for their own and often questionable ends.
A LANDING ON THE ISLE OF MUCK
In his excellent book Air Ambulance, Iain Hutchinson he gives an account of a landing on the Isle of Muck on the 10th April 1934 after a call came in for an air ambulance flight. To quote; “….Captain Orrell was once more confronted by a landscape that offered no obvious landing site and he again had to opt for an ascending run up a hillside. A safe landing accomplished, he was then informed that the locals had doubted his ability to land on the island and they had already despatched the patient to the mainland in a small boat.”
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