Machair
Fertile low-lying grassy plain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the landform. For the TV series, see Machair (TV series). For the area in Galloway from the same root, see The Machars.
A machair (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈmaxɪɾʲ]; sometimes machar in English) is a fertile low-lying grassy plain found on part of the northwest coastlines of Ireland and Scotland, in particular the Outer Hebrides. The best examples are found on North and South Uist, Harris and Lewis.[1]