Iona

Boats cross from Fionnphort at the southwest tip of Mull to the offshore island of Iona. Day trips to Iona are also possible from Oban. Now under the administration of the National Trust for Scotland (1979), the island was a druid shrine long before St Columba landed there in 563. Known originally as "Hy", then "Iona insula", the monastery that St Columba and his 12 companions founded on Iona served as their base as they sought to convert Scotland to Christianity.