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The Corryvreckan whirlpool, between the islands of Jura and Scarba in the Inner Hebrides, is one of the largest whirlpools in the world and considered highly dangerous.

The Corryvreckan whirlpool forms when tides from the east and west of Jura meet off the northernmost tip of the island, and an underwater basalt pillar called The Old Hag forces the water upwards, causing it to smash off the sides of the channel.

It almost claimed the life of writer George Orwell and his son after their boat capsized while he was staying on Jura writing his dystopian novel 1984 in the 1940s.

Vast areas of grassland are to be found primarily in the foothills of the Alps, in the Alps themselves and in the Jura Mountains.

A little more than a year ago, when Ilaria Resta was interviewing for the role of chief executive at the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet, she and her family spent a few days in the Vallée de Joux, the area in the Jura Mountains known as the cradle of Swiss watchmaking.