page_title: List of islands of Scotland
section_title: Bridged islands
hierarchical_section_title: List of islands of Scotland / Bridged islands
caption_attribution_description: English: Causeway, Island of Danna View of the "causeway" connecting the Island of Danna with the mainland.
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: Many of Scotland's islands are connected to the mainland and/or other islands by bridge or causeway. Although some people consider them no longer to be islands, they are generally treated as such.
  Outer Hebrides
  Many of the islands of the southern Outer Hebrides have been joined to other islands by causeways and bridges. These include:
  Baleshare
  Benbecula
  Berneray
  Eriskay
  Grimsay
  North Uist
  South Uist
  Vatersay, which joined to Barra, but not to the above islands.
  To the north, Scalpay and Great Bernera are connected to Lewis and Harris.
  Inner Hebrides
  Skye is connected to the mainland by the Skye Bridge which now incorporates Eilean Bàn.
  Eilean Donan by causeway to the mainland
  Eriska by causeway to the mainland
  Seil (to mainland) via John Stevenson's 1792 "Bridge over The Atlantic".
  Danna  by causeway to the mainland
  Orkney Islands
  Similarly, four Orkney islands are joined to the Orkney Mainland by a series of causeways known as the Churchill Barriers. They are:
  South Ronaldsay
  Burray
  Lamb Holm
  Glimps Holm
  Hunda is in turn connected to Burray via a causeway.
  South Walls and Hoy are connected by a causeway called the Ayre. The islands are treated as one entity (Hoy) by the UK census.
  An undersea tunnel between the archipelago and Caithness, at a length of about 9–10 miles (14–16 km) and a tunnel connecting Orkney Mainland to Shapinsay have been discussed, although little has come of it.
  Shetland Islands
  Several Shetland islands are joined to the Shetland Mainland:
  West Burra and East Burra (via Trondra)
  Muckle Roe
  Trondra
  Broch of Clickimin is a freshwater islet joined to the mainland by a stone causeway.
  There is also a bridge from Housay to Bruray.
  Others
  Various other islands are also connected by bridges or causeways, to the mainland or other islands, including:
  Inchgarvie (part of Forth Bridge), thus joined to both Fife and Lothian on the Mainland.
  Garbh Eilean at the entrance to Loch Glencoul is now joined to the mainland by both the Kylesku Bridge to the south and its associated roadworks to the north.
  Innis Chonan, an inhabited island in Loch Awe is connected to the mainland by a small road bridge.
caption: The stone causeway to Danna
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