page_title: List of islands of Scotland
section_title: Holy islands
hierarchical_section_title: List of islands of Scotland / Holy islands
caption_attribution_description: English: Centre for world peace and health on Holy Isle with flags and stupas.
context_page_description: This is a list of islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain. Also included are various other related tables and lists. The definition of an offshore island used in this list is "land that is surrounded by seawater on a daily basis, but not necessarily at all stages of the tide, excluding human devices such as bridges and causeways".
  Scotland has over 900 offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. There are also clusters of islands in the Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth, and Solway Firth, and numerous small islands within the many bodies of fresh water in Scotland including Loch Lomond and Loch Maree. The largest island is Lewis and Harris which extends to 2,179 square kilometres, and there are a further 200 islands which are greater than 40 hectares in area. Of the remainder, several such as Staffa and the Flannan Isles are well known despite their small size. Some 94 Scottish islands are permanently inhabited, of which 89 are offshore islands. Between 2001 and 2011 Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702.
context_section_description: A huge number of the islands of Scotland have some kind of culdee/church connection, and/or are dominated by a church. The more notable include:
  Island Davaar
  Egilsay
  Eynhallow
  Holy Island
  Inchcolm
  Inch Kenneth
  Inchmahome (F)
  Iona
  Isle Maree
  North Rona
  Oronsay
  Papa Stronsay (current Transalpine Redemptorist monastery. Islands called "Papa" or "Pabbay" tend to be former saints' islands)
  St Ninian's Isle
  St Serf's Inch (F)
  Tiree ("land of Iona")
  Brother Isle's name is not ecclesiastical in origin as is sometimes stated.
caption: The Tibetan Buddhist Centre for World Peace and Health on Holy Island
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