Talk:Cape Wrath

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one of the last remaining wildernesses in Western Europe

It's a top contenter within the UK but surely not for western europe. If places I've visited, I'd estimate that 50% of Norway and 80% of Iceland are at least as 'wild' with less military action.--JBellis 16:41, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can it really be a wilderness at the same time as being used as a "military bombardment range". As a resident of Australia and Canada I have a different defintion of wilderness I guess :) Robertbrockway 03:54, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"One of the last wildernesses in {England/Britain/Europe}" is an all-too-common cliché used in the British media, almost always inaccurately. (In the case of Scotland these so-called wildernesses are usually of recent creation, depopulated by the Highland clearances). I've changed it to "a desolate and virtually uninhabited region"; my assertion that it's "virtually uninhabited" is based on the 5 or 6 houses marked on the Ordnance Survey Landranger map, but I don't know whether they're occupied or not. --Blisco 16:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hotel?

Is there a Cape Wrath hotel? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Laurel Bush (talk • contribs) 18:28, 8 August 2006.

Yes. It's not on the Cape Wrath peninsula though, but on the other side of the Kyle of Durness, so its relevance to this article is probably fairly minimal unless the hotel is notable in its own right, or unless it was put in the context of tourism to the Cape. --Blisco 17:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)