Sròmaigh

Stromay

Stromay

Tidal island off North Uist in the Sound of Harris, Scotland

Not to be confused with Island of Stroma.

Stromay (Scottish Gaelic: Sròmaigh) is a tidal island[4] off North Uist in the Sound of Harris, Scotland.

Quick Facts Scottish Gaelic name, Old Norse name ...

The low island of Stromay lies between two wide, shallow sea lochs, Loch Mhic Phàil and Loch Aulasary.[4] Stromay is joined to North Uist for most of the tidal cycle.

A smaller islet of the same name lies between Harris and Ensay,[5] and another (Stròmaigh) between North Uist and Kirkibost.[3]

There are extensive sands and rocks offshore that are exposed at low tide.[6]

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Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
  2. [2]
    "Stromay". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  3. [3]
    Get-a-map (Map). Ordnance Survey.
  4. [4]
    J.D. Hansom. "Loch Maddy - Sound Of Harris Coastline" (PDF). JNCC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  5. [5]
    Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
  6. [6]
    Rick Livingstone’s Tables provide an area of 100 hectares (250 acres), which may include the inter-tidal zone. Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011.
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Stromay from the air, looking west. The narrow channel of Sruth Beag between Stromay and North Uist is at centre

57°39′26″N 7°8′18″W
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