List of islands of Scotland
Likewise, occasionally an island may be named after a location on the nearby mainland, or a major neighbouring island - or vice versa. Examples of this include Vementry, which was originally the name of an island, but whose name has been transferred to a nearby farm on Mainland Shetland, Oldany Island, whose name has been transferred to Oldany; Cramond Island which is named after neighbouring Cramond (a district of Edinburgh) and Eilean Mhealasta in the Outer Hebrides, which is named after Mealista on Lewis.
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See also
- Geography of Scotland
- List of Orkney islands
- List of Shetland islands
- List of Marilyns on Scottish islands
- List of islands of England
- List of islands of Wales
- List of islands of Ireland
- British Isles
- List of the British Isles by area
- Infobox Scottish island
- Template:Hebrides
- Template:Shetland
- Template:Islands of the Forth
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References and footnotes
- General references
- Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-454-3
- General Register Office for Scotland (28 Nov 2003) Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands Retrieved 9 July 2007.
- Specific references and notes
- ^ Various other definitions are used. For example the General Register Office for Scotland define an island as 'a mass of land surrounded by water, separate from the Scottish mainland' but although they include islands linked by bridges etc. this is not clear from this definition. Haswell-Smith (2004) op cit uses 'an Island is a piece of land or group of pieces of land which is entirely surrounded by water at Lowest Astronomical Tide and to which there is no permanent means of dry access'. This is widely agreed to be unhelpful as it consciously excludes bridged islands. However, the large numbers of small tidal islets essentially defy categorisation.
- ^ a b c d e f Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands'. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-454-3.
- ^ McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts, Roger (2007) Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland. Edinburgh. Birlinn.
- ^ a b General Register Office for Scotland (28 Nov 2003). "Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands". Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
- ^ Ross, John (05 October 2007) "Isolated Communities Where Violent Crime Comes as a Shock". Edinburgh. The Scotsman.
- ^ On This Day: 21 September. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ House of Lords Hansard (24 June, 1997). Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ "Oral Questions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs" (1 November, 1973). Dáil Éireann.
- ^ MacDonald, Fraser (2006). "The last outpost of Empire: Rockall and the Cold War". Journal of Historical Geography 32: 627-647. doi:.
- ^ Haswell-Smith (2004) op cit, save those indicated with an asterisk, which are estimates based on Ordnance Survey maps and General Register Office for Scotland statistics.
- ^ Ordnance Survey maps. Note that the maps mark the height above sea level of a high point on most islands, but in a small number of cases, this may not be the highest peak.
- ^ a b The 2001 Census does not list South Walls as an island, but includes the total in Hoy. The record for Hoy in this table excludes the estimated total for South Walls. The combined population is listed as 392.
- ^ Loch Lomond Islands - Inchmurrin. Loch Lomond.net. Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
- ^ a b Dow, Jim (2005) Islands Galore. A Scottish Islands Handbook. Edinburgh. Black & White Publishing.
- ^ D.A. Bearhop (1997). Munro's Tables. Scottish Mountaineering Club & Trust. ISBN 0-907521-53-3.
- ^ David Lister. "Islanders see a brighter future with tunnel vision", The Times, September 5, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ John Ross. "£100m tunnel to Orkney 'feasible'", The Scotsman newspaper, 10 Match 2005. Retrieved on 2007-04-28.
- ^ Pàrlamaid na h-Alba placenames Retrieved 16 July 2007.
- ^ Fettes College Shetland Landscapes Retrieved 3 August 2007.
- ^ Burntisland Online Retrieved 22 June 2007.
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