![]() "Extremely unget-at-able" was how George Orwell described the location of the Isle of Jura in 1946, and it was here in 1948 he completed his novel Nineteen-Eighty-four: the island remains difficult to reach today. The inhabitants of Jura are known as Diurachs, which is their Gaelic name. Less than 200 people live on the island (while it has a red deer population of around 5000). There are seven estates on Jura: Ardfin, Inver, Jura Forest, Ruantallain, Tarbert, Ardlussa, and Barnhill. The island of Jura is seven miles (11 km) wide and thirty miles (48 km) long and it has only one road, one pub, and one distillery. Jura Two-One-Two whisky was named after the 212 inhabitants of the island of Jura.
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