page_title: Coll
section_title: In fiction
hierarchical_section_title: Coll / In fiction
caption_attribution_description: English: Island on Loch Renard One of the many lochans and lochs on the Isle of Coll. In the foreground, heather and a rowan tree.
context_page_description: Coll is an island located west of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for Breacachadh Castle. It is in the council area of Argyll and Bute.
context_section_description: Mairi Hedderwick, the illustrator and author, used to live on Coll and has used the island as the setting for her Katie Morag series of children's books. In the books, Coll is known by the fictional name of the Isle of Struay.
  In Alexander McCall Smith's The Charming Quirks of Others the protagonist, Isabelle Dalhousie, discusses Coll as a place for a honeymoon.
caption: Island on Loch Renard, one of the many lochans and lochs on Coll. In the foreground, heather and a rowan tree.
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