Scottish island
Land amid lochs
A Scottish island is any of the roughly 800 islands surrounding mainland Scotland, including the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland archipelagos.
About 130 are inhabited.
The term often evokes images of rugged landscapes, sparse populations, and traditional Gaelic culture: They spent a week on a Scottish island with no cell service.
- Atlantic stormsOceanic cyclonic weather systems
- OrkneyScottish island group
- ShetlandScottish archipelago, northernmost UK
- HebridesScottish island chain
- stone circlesPrehistoric arrangements of standing rocks
ferry routes · boat trips · peat bogs · single malt · kelp forests · puffins · sea eagles · Jura · Iona · archaeological digs · fishing villages · seals · hiking trails · coastal paths · wild camping · whisky distilleries · tidal pools · sheep grazing