Isle Of South Uist
South Uist is the second-largest island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. At the 2011 census, it had an usually resident population of 1,754: a decline of 64 since 2001. The island, alike with the rest of the Hebrides, is just one of the last continuing to be strongholds of the Gaelic language in Scotland and the population-- South Uist's inhabitants are understood in Gaelic as Deasaich (Southerners)-- is about 90% Roman Catholic. The island is residence to a nature get and a number of sites of historical rate of interest, including one which is the only place in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have actually been located. In the northwest, there is a rocket testing range. In 2006 South Uist, together with neighbouring Benbecula and Eriskay, was associated with Scotland's biggest-ever neighborhood land acquistion.