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South Orkney Islands

 Subject

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Note entitled 'Fishing Banks', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/267
Scope and Contents

Note entitled 'Fishing Banks' stating that fishing banks in Norway and Barra are both apportioned in the same way. The banks are allotted by the people and a bank may belong to a tribe living forty miles up a fjord.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael