Island - Scotland

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18 January 2024
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Summary

The geography of Scotland comprises the mainland plus many islands. Some of these islands are inhabited and through time their inhabited/uninhabited status can change.

Most of Scotland’s islands are found in 3 main areas, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and the Hebrides. However, there are also clusters in the Firth of Clyde, Firth of Forth and within bodies of fresh water such as Loch Lomond.

For National Records of Scotland, the prime reason for identifying inhabited islands is to aid the delivery and collection of Census questionnaires. In addition to the enumeration aspect of the census, there has always been an interest in the statistics associated with Scotland’s inhabited islands and this dataset helps ensure that they are all identified.

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National Records of Scotland website N/A 18 January 2024 Not available
NRS:Islands N/A 18 January 2024 Not available
Islands N/A 18 January 2024 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2024-01-18
Access contraints
The following statements must be used when reproducing or using this material: Copyright National Records of Scotland, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).
Harvest GUID
39a178cf-6086-41d0-9fc3-e867381fb44f
Extent
Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
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Dataset reference date
2022-01-11 (creation)
2024-01-18 (publication)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
National Records of Scotland (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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