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| Isle of Arran | |
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| Location | |
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| OS grid reference: | NR950359 |
| Names | |
| Gaelic name: |  Eilean Arainn (info • help) |
| Norse name: | Herreyp38 |
| Meaning of name: | Possibly Brythonic for "high place" |
| Area and Summit | |
| Area: | 43,201 hectares (167 sq mi) |
| Area rank (Scottish islands): | 7 p502 |
| Highest elevation: | Goat Fell 874 m (2,867 ft) |
| Population | |
| Population (2001): | 5,058 |
| Population rank (inhabited Scottish islands): | 6 out of 97 |
| Main settlement: | Brodick |
| Groupings | |
| Island Group: | Firth of Clyde |
| Local Authority: | North Ayrshire |
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Arran or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
With an area of 432 square kilometres (167 sq mi) it is the seventh largest Scottish island. Just over 5,000 people live there.
Arran shares with the Hebrides cultural and physical similarities. Arran is mountainous and has been described as a "geologist's paradise".p11/17
People have lived there since the early Neolithic period, from which time on there are numerous prehistoric remains.
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