Easdale Island, a small slate island of the Inner Hebrides, Firth of Lorn, Scotland. Home to around 60 people.

In the 1800s the population on Easdale Island was ten-fold what it is now, and the slate mines were thriving. Easdale slate can be found all over the world covering the rooftops of churches as far away as New Zealand. There are specks of iron in the slate that are a signature for the island. Quarries on the island were as deep as 300ft in places, with a thin wall protecting them from the sea beyond. In 1881 a colossal storm put an industrial sized nail in the coffin, filling many of them with seawater and instigating the decline of slate mining in Scotland.