Islay
Islay is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, famed for its collection of big name whisky distilleries - nine at the latest count and more coming.
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Notable Places in the Area
The Columba Centre Islay
University
Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle is a Gaelic medium college on the shores of Loch Indaal, on Islay, in Scotland.
Localities in the Area
Bridgend
Hamlet
Bridgend is a village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay off the western coast of Scotland at the tip of Loch Indaal. Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballygrant
Village
Ballygrant is a small village on the Inner Hebrides island of Islay of the western coast of Scotland. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Islay
- Type: Locality
- Description: southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
- Category: island
- Location: Inner Hebrides, Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- Postal codes: PA42, PA43, PA44, PA45, PA46, PA47, PA48 and PA49
Latitude 55.7853° or 55° 47' 6.9" north | Longitude -6.2389° or 6° 14' 19.9" west |
Population 3460 | United Nations Location Code GB ISY |
Elevation 66 feet (20 metres) | GeoNames ID 8299862 |
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Islay
- Basque: Islay
- Belarusian: Айла
- Breton: Ìle
- Catalan: Islay
- Cebuano: Islay
- Chinese: 艾拉岛
- Chinese: 艾拉島
- Czech: Islay
- Danish: Islay
- Dutch: Islay
- Egyptian Arabic: ايسلاى
- English: Isle of Islay
- English: Queen of the Hebrides
- English: The Queen of the Hebrides
- Esperanto: Islay
- Estonian: Islay
- Finnish: Islay
- French: Islay
- Galician: Islay
- German: Islay
- Greek: Άιλα
- Hebrew: איילה
- Hungarian: Islay
- Indonesian: Islay
- Irish: Ìle
- Italian: Islay
- Italian: Regina delle Ebridi
- Japanese: アイラ島
- Javanese: Islay
- Korean: 아일레이
- Latin: Ila insula
- Lithuanian: Aila
- Livvi: Ìle
- Low German: Islay
- Macedonian: Ајла
- Norwegian: Islay
- Norwegian Bokmål: Islay
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Islay
- Occitan (post 1500): Islay
- Persian: آیله
- Polish: Islay
- Portuguese: Islay
- Russian: А́йлей
- Russian: Айлей
- Scots: Ila
- Scots: Islay
- Scottish Gaelic: Ìle
- Serbian: Ајлеј
- Serbian: Острво Ајлеј
- Serbo-Croatian: Islay
- Slovak: Islay
- Spanish: Islay
- Spanish: La reina de las Hebridas
- Spanish: La reina de las Hébridas
- Sundanese: Islay
- Swedish: Islay
- Tamil: இஸ்லே
- Thai: ไอเลย์
- Ukrainian: Айлей
- Welsh: Ìle
- Western Panjabi: ازلے
- Wu Chinese: 艾拉岛
Other Places Named Islay
- Islay ProvincePeru
- Islay DistrictPeru
- Islay (Matarani)Village, Peru
- IslayHamlet, Alberta, Canada
- Islay AirportAerodrome, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
- IslayNeighborhood, Scotland, United Kingdom
In the Area
Localities
- Barr
- GruinartLocality
- Bruichladdich distilleryVillage
- Port CharlotteVillage
- Port AskaigVillage, 7 miles northeast
- GlenegedaleHamlet, 7 miles south
Landmarks
- River SornStream
- IslayIsland
- Islay HospitalHospital
- Loch DrolsayWater feature
- Loch IndaalBay
- FinlagganLake
Popular Destinations in Inner Hebrides
Escape to a Random Place
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