Telegraph Post

This marker, on the island of Kerrera, presumably warns of where the undersea cable

from Oban makes its landfall. However, the first successful Transatlantic Telegraph

cable led from here to Newfoundland and it was not until the Cold War years

 of the mid-1950s that a voice cable link to America was established,

 running, perhaps appropriately, along the Sound of Kerrera.

17th  May 2009