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Volcanic Geotourism in
West Coast Scotland
Thomas A. Hose includes parts of two discrete geographical and
tourism regions: Ayrshire and Arran in the south
An introduction to Scotland’s and the Highlands in the north and extends some
‘west coast’ volcanic tourism 50km inland. It includes the area encompassed by
the Lochaber Geopark and that delineated by the
This chapter examines volcanic tourism as an British Geological Survey (BGS) as the ‘Palaeogene
aspect of ‘geotourism’ (Hose, 1995, 2000) on
Scotland’s west coast (Figure 18.1). This area
Figure 18.1 West coast Scotland location map Figure 18.2 The major landscapes of Scotland map
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