The Scottish islands which inspired cult film The Wicker Man have lost their last permanent residents.
Tanera Mor was the last of the Summer Isles to be inhabited until the owners’ move to the mainland.
It marks the end of an era for the cluster of 17 islands which were home to more than 100 people a little over a century ago.
Accessed by boat from the village of Achiltibuie in Wester Ross, Tanera Mor has been on the market since May 2013.
The asking price was reduced this year from £2.5million to offers over £1,950,000.
The sum includes its own approved postal service and licence to design and issue private Summer Isles postage stamps, which are much sought after by collectors.
Lizzie Williams married her husband, Richard, on Tanera Mor, and the couple are now trying to sell the land and its holiday cottage business.
She said: “My parents bought the island in the 1996. My husband and I run the island together. We now all live on the mainland.”
This was the first year since her family purchased Tanera Mor that no new stamps were designed, she explained.
“For 15 or more years we have done an issue every year,” she added.
Asked if there might be a new stamp for 2015 she said: “We’ll struggle.”
Tanera Mor – at just over a mile wide and a mile-and-a-half long – is the biggest of the Summer Isles and still attracts about 5,000 visitors a year.
It was the inspiration for the 1973 movie The Wicker Man, which followed a sergeant who comes across the island’s strange pagan rituals while investigating a report of a missing child.
Priest Island, the outermost and most exposed of the Summer Isles, is reported to have been home to an early Christian retreat with mysterious stone circles, while Isle Martin, the closest of the islands to Ullapool, is named after St Martin, who is said to have established a monastery there in about 300 AD.