Mull of Oa

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South west of the town of Port Ellen lies a small, rounded peninsula, the Mull of Oa, an area of varied natural environments, from wild moorland to the culivated and pastoral. Being a Mull (Scot's for peninsula) the wonderful coastline is never far from sight. The spectacular headland at the Mull of Oa is where the American monument, commemorating the shipwreck offshore of two USA ships, sunk in 1918 just at the end of the First World War.