St Margaret's Island

St Margaret's Island (Welsh: Ynys Farged) is a small tidal island to the northwest of Caldey Island in Carmarthen Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Its name derives from a chapel that once stood on the site; however, in Victorian times this was converted into housing for local quarry workers, who mined limestone on the island until 1851.[1][2] Its highest point is 40 metres (130 ft).

Saint Margaret's Island
St. Margaret's Island

St Margaret's Island is a sensitive conservation site because of the birds that nest on its cliffs: cormorants (the largest population of this species in Wales, constituting 3% of the total British population), guillemots, razorbills, shags, kittiwakes, great black-backed gulls, lesser black-backed gulls, herring gulls, puffins and, more recently, gannets. The island is vegetated with sea beet, sea mayweed and rank grass.

There is no public access to St Margaret's Island. However, the waters around it are popular with divers.

References
  1. "St Margaret's Island". Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. "St Margaret's Island". The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
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