It's… pretty bleak, sir - all grey hills and jagged rocks, like the ones you can see from the beach. I made it as far as the cliffs by the cove on the east coast, and then back again, in the ten hours I was away. Reckon those mountains would take a good half day to climb, though. Other people? No sir. There's lots of ruins, but… I don't think there's anybody living here, right now. Nobody except us.

- Sassa Lund, former Bosun of the SS Bannatyne (Monday, 24th April, 1933)

Perhaps this island has been charted before; it is, however, entirely unknown to the former crew and passengers of the Bannatyne.

Its west coast is flatter than its eastern side, with sandy beaches and dunes giving way to moors and grassland. There is a small freshwater loch with a little island of its own. To the south is a large area of scrub dominated by gorse thicket.

To the east, the island's landscape becomes more rugged and mountainous. The highest peaks are in the north-east. The eastern coast is dramatically fragmented, with high cliffs and rocky inlets. Out to sea, skerries¹⁾ tail off to the south-east.

There is a storm raging in a wide circle around the island, some way out to sea. The weather on the island itself appears to operate independently of this storm system, being fairly characteristic of that of Hebridean islands as a whole.

This map is based on a drawing made by Sassa Lund, former Bosun of the SS Bannatyne, during an initial foray to survey the island on the day after the shipwreck. Her notes, as presented before the meeting that very evening, are as follows:

1. Ruins?
2. Stone circle
3. Highest peak
4. Small loch - water seems fine to drink
5. More ruins?
6. Island, with the only trees to be found here
7. Ruined cottage
8. More ruins
9. Dramatic cliff
10. It looks like there are small structures in the bog here
11. This path leads down into the cove
12. We are here,
13. Gorse thicket - too overgrown to get through
14. Some kind of cave?
15. Old fire pit?
16. Skerries
17. Ruins - some kind of tower?
18. Small island - some vegetation
19. Nice clear stream leading down from the mountains