Scottish Island Regions

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19 June 2024
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Summary

The Scottish Island Regions geography was first released in 2023 and is used for grouping Scotland’s islands into nine different island regions. The geography is based on the Scottish Island Regions Framework (2020) initially developed by the James Hutton Institute and used as the basis for the National Islands Plan Survey (2020). Further details are published on http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805259657.

The geography is created by allocating eligible islands from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) Island geography, which currently have or have previously had at least one Royal Mail Delivery Point assigned to them, into one of the nine regions. There are a total of 179 currently or previously inhabited islands (excluding the Scottish mainland), which have each been given a unique 3-digit code by NRS. The Scottish Island Regions geography follows the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 by including islands within six Council Areas, and excluding those within inland lochs. The six Council Areas, as defined by the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018, are Argyll and Bute, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Highland, North Ayrshire, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands. A lookup is available which shows the allocation of the 179 NRS Islands to the Scottish Island Regions. A data zone lookup is also available which provides a suggested allocation of data zones to the Scottish Island Regions. Further details on best-fitting data zones are published on http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805259664.

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Scottish Island Regions Lookups ZIP 19 June 2024 Not available
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ScottishIslandRegions N/A 19 June 2024 Not available
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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-06-19
Access contraints
Available under the terms of the Open Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).
Harvest GUID
77581afc-9f8b-477d-9b8c-f130af35a283
Extent
Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
Dataset reference date
2023-06-20 (creation)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
Scottish Government (publisher, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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