It is illegal to drive off the road on to machair.

Human activity has an important role in the creation of the machair.

The island is mainly covered with machair and white sand.

Then it was gone and he answered mildly: 'On the machair.

They were flat as a table and at that distance the grass of the machair looked like a lawn.

Visit the island in June and July for the best display on the machair.

The distribution of machair land in the islands is also shown in Figure 1.

They played among the machair and stirred islanders into having a proper course laid out.

The west coast has wide, sandy beaches with machair.

The islands are relatively low lying and are covered in machair.

It might be identified on or near machair.

“They are quite different to the open habitats like the machair and the peatlands.

I asked: 'Can you really see the lights of this cottage from the machair?'

Populations are found in moorland and machair in the North.

He was pointing northwards, to the cliffs towering beyond the machair.

The habitats include fixed dunes, a type of machair.

In 1976, an effort was made to strictly define machair, although a number of systems still evade classification.

The fertile machair lands of the island provide for good quality farming and crofting.

The machair is a coastal plain made up of windblown shell sand.

The machair is noted for different species of orchid and associated vegetation such as various grasses.

The distribution of machair (Figure 1, a and b) may be used as a means of identifying differences between island groups.

The main beach car park is separated from the beach by the machair and has recently been upgraded.

'But there's a path round under the wall, and the machair starts just beyond the trees.'

The island is largely covered by maritime grassland, with some machair and heath.

The bays are bordered with sandy beaches and machair dunes.