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Oban

If the western highlands has a capital it is the town of Oban. The mainland of the western highlands does not have many distilleries and this is still a thinly populated part of Scotland. The first settlers arrived by sea and came to this coast in 5000 BC, making their homes in caves in the cliffside. That story and a later account of Scottish invasion from Antrim in Ireland are told on the label of the Oban Malt.

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