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As geos go, that is quite a long one.

Not far away from picture #26231. Longagleeb at the Northside of Birsay.

One of the ones between the Gloup and Mull Head?

It's Longaglebe

Is that the same as the Lang Geo in my picture #710 ?

Having compared them... yes!

Indeed Steven. If I'd checked beforehand I wouldn't have submitted my inferior pic. (Memo to self: always check beforehand.) Some sources call it Longaglebe, others such as Marwick in The Place-names of Birsay spell it Longagleeb. (The normally restrained Hugh Marwick calls it 'awesome and very dangerous', perhaps a slight exaggeration. It made a deep impression on George Mackay Brown too, but I can't recall where I read it.)

One of the things that makes my pic unferior to yours Steven is its unsharpness. I've had another look at the original; it's noticeably sharper. Posting on OIL hasn't had this much effect on my pics before, despite the downsizing you have to impose. The Whitaloo shot is much the same. Puzzling.

[I'll ask about that. You may have noticed that there hasn't been large versions posted for a few weeks - I regained the power to retrospectively add large versions, but at the same time lost the power to add big versions at the time they were uploaded. Mine would have been uploaded at the actual page size and maybe sharpened after resizing to that size. - Steven

Thanks for that Steven, and apologies for 'unferior'.