Small Isles
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Rùm and Eigg.
Rùm
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Rùm is the largest of the four Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It has a permanent population of about thirty, centred around the harbour at Kinloch on the east coast.
Eigg
Photo: Graham Lewis, CC BY 2.0.
Eigg is one of the Small Isles, lying 10 miles off the west coast of Scotland, and with a population of just under 100. The name means "notched" and it's a moorland plateau cleaved by a valley, with the dramatic scarp of An Sgurr looming over it.
Canna
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Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It's joined by a road to the smaller tidal island of Sanday. Canna, Sanday and their surrounding skerries are managed by the National Trust for Scotland, and are run as a farm and conservation area.
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Muck
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Muck is one of the Small Isles off the west coast of Scotland. It's the smallest of the four inhabited Isles, about 2½ miles east-west by a mile north-south, and has no shop, church or even a letter-box.
Photo: Thruston, Public domain.
Small Isles
- Type: Island with 153 residents
- Description: island group and Scottish civil parish in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “The Small Isles”
- Categories: island group and Scottish civil parish
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Small Isles” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Illes Small”
- Catalan: “Na h-Eileanan Beaga”
- Catalan: “Small Isles”
- Cebuano: “Small Isles”
- Cebuano: “The Small Isles”
- Czech: “Small Isles”
- Dutch: “Small Isles”
- French: “îles Small”
- French: “Îles Small”
- French: “Petites îles”
- French: “Small Isles”
- Hungarian: “Small-szigetek”
- Irish: “Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn”
- Japanese: “スモール・アイルズ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Small Isles”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Small Isles”
- Norwegian: “Small Isles”
- Russian: “Смолл-Айлс”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Beaga”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mali otoci”
- Spanish: “Islas pequenas”
- Spanish: “Islas pequeñas”
- Spanish: “Islas Small”
- Spanish: “Small Isles”
- Swedish: “Small Isles”
- Swedish: “The Small Isles”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Bach”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Small Isles”. Photo: Graeme Churchard, CC BY 2.0.