Strontian
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Strontian is a village in Ardgour, in the Scottish Highlands. The mineral strontianite was discovered here, from which the element strontium was first isolated.
The village name, Srōn an t-Sėtheinn in Gaelic, translates as the promontary of the sėtheann, a sėtheann being a low, round hill inhabited by the mythological Sėth.