Talk:Island Davaar

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THE DAVAAR LIGHTHOUSEKEEPER WAS MY GT G,FATHER...NAME GEORGE GALLIE...HIS WIFE WAS WILHELMINA...WHAT YEAR WAS THE LIGHTHOUSE BUILT??

not uninhabited

At the most recent census (2001) it was inhabited - see pop stats in List of islands of Scotland--JBellis 19:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

40 minutes?

"The crossing can be made in around 40 minutes." That on foot, in a car, or what? 86.138.44.237 (talk) 18:03, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

on foot - each way [1] Finavon (talk) 19:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

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I have usually seen this island's name in English as Island Davaar, rather than Davaar Island, an obvious calque of the Gaelic. --MacRusgail 13:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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Requested move 31 August 2019

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The result of the move request was: page moved per concensus below. (closed by non-admin page mover) PC78 (talk) 17:49, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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Davaar Island → Island Davaar – Per WP:WIAN this is the name on the Ordnance Survey. Also James Patrick Hynes and Ports.org.uk use this name although quite a few sources use the current title. Crouch, Swale (talk) 16:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

• Support, reasonable enough grounds. bd2412 T 03:14, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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