Inner Hebrides
The Inner Hebrides are those islands of the Hebrides lying close to the mainland of Western Scotland. If you have a notion to see "the Highlands and Islands", without being more specific, what you're looking for is somewhere in the Inner Hebrides.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Islay and Iona.
Islay
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Islay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, with a population of 3,228 in 2011. It's mostly low-lying grazing land and heath, with Port Ellen and Bowmore the main settlements.
Iona
Iona is an island one mile west of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It's only 3½ miles long by 1½ miles across, with a population of 210 in 2019. Its main settlement Baile Mor is just a straggle of cottages.
Isle of Jura
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Jura is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. It's 30 miles long by 7 miles wide, with a population of only 196 in 2011. It has poor boggy soil and three conical hills known as the Paps of Jura.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Skye and Small Isles.
Skye
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Skye is the largest and most northerly of the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, linked to the mainland by a toll-free bridge. It's a rugged mountainous island with spectacular scenery. Portree is the main settlement, with a tourist information centre, and the main concentration of accommodation.
Small Isles
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The Small Isles lie 15-20 miles off the west coast of Scotland and are part of the Inner Hebrides. Four are inhabited and have a ferry service: Rùm, Eigg, Muck and Canna.
Mull
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Mull is a large island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's hilly and thinly populated; most people live in Tobermory with a scattering down the northeast coast to Craignure ferry port.
Tiree
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Tiree is the westernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide, with a population of 653 in 2011. It's low-lying and relatively fertile - the name means "land of corn".
Staffa
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Staffa is an island in the Inner Hebrides, best known for Fingal's Cave. It's an uninhabited wildlife reserve extending 1 km north-south by 500 m east-west, owned by the National Trust for Scotland and reached by boat trips from Mull.
Colonsay
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Colonsay is an island in the Inner Hebrides, about 8 miles long by 2½ miles wide, with Scalasaig as its main settlement and ferry pier. Colonsay is rocky yet fertile, with fine beaches, and had a population of 135 in 2011.
Raasay
Raasay is an island off the east coast of Skye in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It's 14 miles long by 5 miles wide, with its main settlement Inverarish clustered near the ferry pier on its southwest coast.
Coll
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Coll is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide and in 2011 had a population of 195, mostly in the ferry port of Arinagour.
Isle of Lismore
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Lismore is an island ten miles north of Oban in the sea inlet of Loch Linnhe. It's one of the Inner Hebrides islands, but little developed for tourism, and overlooked by visitors who sail by on the ferries.
Inner Hebrides
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland
- Categories: island group and archipelago
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Inner Hebrides” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Binne-Hebride”
- Arabic: “إنر هيربردس”
- Arabic: “هبرديس الداخلية”
- Asturian: “Islles Hébrides Interiores”
- Basque: “Barruko Hebridak”
- Belarusian: “Унутраныя Гебрыдскія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Унутраныя Гебрыды”
- Breton: “Na h-Eileanan a-staigh”
- Breton: “Na h-Eileanan a-stigh”
- Catalan: “Hèbrides Interiors”
- Cebuano: “Inner Hebrides”
- Chinese: “Inner Hebrides”
- Chinese: “内赫布里底群岛”
- Croatian: “Unutarnji Hebridi”
- Czech: “Vnitřní Hebridy”
- Danish: “Indre Hebrider”
- Dutch: “Binnen-Hebriden”
- Esperanto: “Ĉeaj Hebridoj”
- Esperanto: “Proksimaj Hebridoj”
- Estonian: “Na h-Eileanan a-staigh”
- Estonian: “Sise-Hebriidid”
- Finnish: “Sisä-Hebridit”
- French: “Hebrides interieures”
- French: “Hébrides intérieures”
- Galician: “Hébridas Interiores”
- German: “Innere Hebriden”
- Greek: “Εσωτερικές Εβρίδες”
- Hebrew: “ההברידיים הפנימיים”
- Hebrew: “ההיברידים הפנימיים”
- Icelandic: “Innri Suðureyjar”
- Irish: “Na h-Eileanan a-staigh”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Istigh”
- Irish: “Na hOileáin Laistigh”
- Italian: “Ebridi Interne”
- Japanese: “インナー・ヘブリディーズ”
- Japanese: “インナー・ヘブリディーズ諸島”
- Kazakh: “Ішкі Гебрид аралдары”
- Korean: “이너헤브리디스 제도”
- Latin: “Ebudae interiores”
- Latin: “Ebudes Interiores”
- Latvian: “Iekšējās Hebridu salas”
- Lithuanian: “Vidiniai Hebridai”
- Low German: “Binnere Hebriden”
- Luxembourgish: “Bannescht Hebriden”
- Macedonian: “Внатрешни Хебриди”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Indre Hebridene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dei indre Hebridane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Indre Hebridane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Indre Hebridene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Na h-Eileanan a-staigh”
- Norwegian: “Indre Hebridene”
- Persian: “هبریدهای داخلی”
- Polish: “Hebrydy Wewnętrzne”
- Portuguese: “Hébridas Interiores”
- Portuguese: “Inner Hebrides”
- Romanian: “Hebridele interioare”
- Russian: “Внутренние Гебридские острова”
- Russian: “Внутренние Гебриды”
- Scots: “Inner Hebrides”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan a-staigh”
- Serbian: “Унутрашњи Хебриди”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Unutarnji Hebridi”
- Slovak: “Vnútorné Hebridy”
- Slovenian: “Notranji Hebridi”
- Spanish: “Hebridas Interiores”
- Spanish: “Hébridas Interiores”
- Spanish: “Islas Hebridas Interiores”
- Spanish: “Islas Hébridas Interiores”
- Swedish: “Inre Hebriderna”
- Thai: “อินเนอร์เฮบริดีส”
- Turkish: “İç Hebridler”
- Ukrainian: “Внутрішні Гебриди”
- Ukrainian: “Внутрішні Гебридські острови”
- Vietnamese: “Nội Hebrides”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Mewnol Heledd”
- Western Frisian: “Binnen-Hebriden”
- Western Frisian: “Binnenste Hebriden”
- Western Panjabi: “اندرلے ہیبرڈز”
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