Gruinard Island
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Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Ghruinneard) is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres (1+1⁄4 miles) long by one kilometre (5⁄8 mi) wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool. At its closest point to the mainland, it is about one kilometre (one-half nautical mile) offshore. In 1942, the island became a sacrifice zone, and was dangerous for all mammals after military experiments with the anthrax bacterium, until it was decontaminated in 1990.
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