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Tiree is the ___MASK12___ westerly island in the Inner Hebrides ___MASK95___ Scotland . The low - lying island , southwest ___MASK95___ Coll , has an area ___MASK95___ and a population ___MASK95___ around 650 . The land is highly fertile , and crofting , alongside tourism , and fishing are the main sources ___MASK95___ employment for the islanders . Tiree , along with Colonsay , enjoys a relatively high number ___MASK95___ total hours ___MASK95___ sunshine during the late spring and early summer compared to the average for the United Kingdom . Tiree is a popular windsurfing venue and is a proposed location for an offshore wind farm . Tiree is sometimes referred to as " Hawaii ___MASK95___ the north " Windsurfing is a surface water sport that combines elements ___MASK95___ surfing and sailing . It consists ___MASK95___ a board usually 2 . 5 to 3 meters long , with displacements typically between 60 and 250 litres , powered by wind on a sail . The rig is connected to the board by a free - rotating universal joint and consists ___MASK95___ a mast , 2 - sided boom and sail . The sail area generally ranges from 2 . 5 m to 12 m depending on the conditions , the skill ___MASK95___ the sailor , the type ___MASK95___ windsurfing being undertaken and the weight ___MASK95___ the person wind surfing . Tourism is travel for pleasure ; also the theory and practice ___MASK95___ touring , the business ___MASK95___ attracting , accommodating , and entertaining tourists , and the business ___MASK95___ operating tours . Tourism may be international , or within the traveller ' s country . The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally , in terms which go " beyond the common perception ___MASK95___ tourism as being limited to holiday activity only ", as people " traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure , business and other purposes ". Mannal is a coastal hamlet on the island ___MASK95___ Tiree , Scotland . The township ___MASK95___ Mannal lies on the southwest corner ___MASK95___ Tiree at the southern end ___MASK95___ Hynish Bay between Hynish and Balemartine . Tiree is the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides which lie off the west coast ___MASK95___ Scotland . A wind farm is a group ___MASK95___ wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity . A large wind farm may consist ___MASK95___ several hundred individual wind turbines and cover an extended area ___MASK95___ hundreds ___MASK95___ square miles , but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other purposes . A wind farm can also be located offshore . Colonsay is an island in the Inner Hebrides ___MASK95___ Scotland , located north ___MASK95___ Islay and south ___MASK95___ Mull . The ancestral home ___MASK95___ Clan Macfie and the Colonsay branch ___MASK95___ Clan MacNeil , it is in the council area ___MASK95___ ___MASK85___ and has an area ___MASK95___ . Aligned on a south - west to north - east axis , it measures in length and reaches at its widest point . ___MASK26___ ( Scots : ) is a country that is part ___MASK95___ the United Kingdom and covers the ___MASK18___ third ___MASK95___ the island ___MASK95___ Great Britain . It shares a border with England to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the ___MASK71___ , with the North Sea to the east and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the country is made up ___MASK95___ more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . Crofting is a form ___MASK95___ land tenure and small - scale food production particular to the Scottish Highlands , the islands ___MASK95___ Scotland , and formerly on the Isle ___MASK95___ Man . Within the 19th century townships , individual crofts are established on the better land , and a large area ___MASK95___ poorer - quality hill ground is shared by all the crofters ___MASK95___ the township for grazing ___MASK95___ their livestock . ___MASK62___ is the 50th and ___MASK12___ recent state to have joined the United States ___MASK95___ America , having received statehood on August 21 , 1959 . ___MASK62___ is the only U . S . state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely ___MASK95___ islands . It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia , occupying ___MASK12___ ___MASK95___ an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean . ___MASK62___ is the only U . S . state not located in the Americas . Coll is an island located ___MASK25___ ___MASK95___ Mull in the Inner Hebrides ___MASK95___ Scotland . Coll is known for its sandy beaches , which rise to form large sand dunes , for its corncrakes , and for Breacachadh Castle . It is in the council area ___MASK95___ ___MASK85___ . Employment is a relationship between two parties , usually based on a contract where work is paid for , where one party , which may be a corporation , for profit , not - for - profit organization , co - operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee . Employees work in return for payment , which may be in the form ___MASK95___ an hourly wage , by piecework or an annual salary , depending on the type ___MASK95___ work an employee does and / or which sector she or he is working in . Employees in some fields or sectors may receive gratuities , bonus payment or stock options . In some types ___MASK95___ employment , employees may receive benefits in addition to payment . Benefits can include health insurance , housing , disability insurance or use ___MASK95___ a gym . Employment is typically governed by employment laws or regulations and / or legal contracts . An island or isle is any piece ___MASK95___ sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping ___MASK95___ geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK40___ . The Inner Hebrides ( Scottish Gaelic : " Na h - Eileanan a - staigh ", " the inner isles ") is an archipelago off the ___MASK25___ coast ___MASK95___ mainland Scotland , to the south east ___MASK95___ the ___MASK1___ . Together these two island chains form the Hebrides , which experience a mild oceanic climate . The Inner Hebrides comprise 35 inhabited islands as well as 44 uninhabited islands with an area greater than . The main commercial activities are tourism , crofting , fishing and whisky distilling . In modern times the Inner Hebrides have formed part ___MASK95___ two separate local government jurisdictions , one to the north and the other to the south . Together , the islands have an area ___MASK95___ about , and had a population ___MASK95___ 18 , 948 in 2011 . The population density is therefore about 4 . 6 per km ( 12 per square mile ).