Staffin

Staffin () is a township with the Gaelic name An Taobh Sear, which translates as "the East Side", on the northeast coast of the Trotternish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It is located on the A855 road about north of Portree and is overlooked by the Trotternish Ridge (including the Quiraing). The township forms part of a parish comprising 23 townships. From south to north: Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Culnancnoc, Valtos, Raiseburgh, Ellishadder, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunans, Flodigarry and Greap.

== Geography and natural history == thumb|left|Staffin at dusk viewed from the Quiraing ridge The Kilmartin River flows northwards through the village and outflows as the Stenscholl River at Stenscholl. To the east at An Corran a seasonally exposed rippled wave cut platform contains at least 18 dinosaur footprints, measuring up to 50 cm in length, attributed to a large theropod akin to Megalosaurus. The footprints date to the Middle Jurassic (approximately 170 million years ago) and occur above an igneous platform - with natural cracks often mistaken for dinosaur footprints. An Corran was also a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer site dating to the 7th millennium BC - one of the oldest archaeological sites in Scotland. Its occupation is probably linked to that of the rock shelter at Sand, Applecross on the coast of Wester Ross.