Islands in Argyll and ButeArgyll and Bute, Scotland

Tobermory's coloured harbour front, Duart Castle, Ben More, and white-tailed and golden eagles along the sea lochs

883 km² · Salen

Where St Columba landed in 563, with the restored abbey, medieval nunnery ruins, an ancient burial ground and white-sand bays

8.5 km² · Baile Mòr

Basalt-column island with Fingal's Cave, a ledge path into it, and puffins on the clifftop in early summer

0.3 km² · Argyll and Bute

Whisky distilleries round the coast, winter geese at RSPB Loch Gruinart, Finlaggan's Lords of the Isles site and the Kildalton Cross

615 km² · Bowmore

Thinly peopled island of the three Paps and thousands of red deer, with Craighouse's distillery and Orwell's Barnhill in the far north

363 km² · Argyll and Bute

Hilly, nearly car-free island facing Oban, with a circular walk past the clifftop ruin of Gylen Castle

12 km² · Oban

Reached by the 1792 'Bridge over the Atlantic', with the white slate village of Ellenabeich and ferries on to Easdale and Luing

14 km² · Clachan Seil

Uninhabited chain west of Mull; boats land on Lunga, where puffins nest by the path, and pass the Dutchman's Cap

1.4 km² · Argyll and Bute

Victorian resort of Rothesay with its moated castle, the Gothic Mount Stuart house, sandy Ettrick Bay and the West Island Way

121 km² · Rothesay

Low Hebridean island of more than 30 sandy beaches, corncrakes on the RSPB reserve and protected dark night skies

74 km² · Arinagour

Hebridean island of Kiloran Bay's golden sands, rhododendron gardens at Colonsay House and a low-tide walk to Oronsay Priory

41 km² · Scalasaig

Community-owned island off Kintyre with the Twin Beaches, Achamore Gardens and a ruined medieval chapel, 20 minutes by ferry

14 km² · Ardminish

Fertile limestone island in Loch Linnhe with St Moluag's medieval cathedral, an Iron Age broch and ferries from Oban and Port Appin

22 km² · Clachan

Quiet slate island for cycling, with the quarry villages of Cullipool and Toberonochy and views across to Scarba and the Garvellachs

14 km² · Easdale

Low, windswept island of white beaches and surf, with the Ringing Stone and the Skerryvore lighthouse museum at Hynish

79 km² · Scarinish

Community-owned since 2018 and a five-minute crossing from Mull, with woodland and shore walks past townships emptied in the Clearances

18 km² · Calgary

Tidal island off Campbeltown with a Stevenson lighthouse and seven sea caves, one holding an 1887 painting of the Crucifixion

0.57 km² · Campbeltown

Car-free slate island of whitewashed cottages around flooded quarries, home of the World Stone Skimming Championships and a folk museum

0.29 km² · Easdale

Tidal island off the Ross of Mull where Stevenson strands David Balfour in Kidnapped, with white sands and pink granite knolls

2.3 km² · Fionnphort

The 'Isles of the Sea', with early monastic beehive cells and a chapel on Eileach an Naoimh, traditionally founded by St Brendan

2.2 km² · Easdale

Remote farm island beyond Ulva, reached on foot by a long hill track, with views out to Staffa and the Treshnish Isles

4.6 km² · Calgary

Farm island at the tip of the Tayvallich peninsula, reached by a short causeway, with shore walks looking out to Jura

3.2 km² · Argyll and Bute

Tidal island reached across the Strand from Colonsay, with a 14th-century priory and carved crosses, and an RSPB farm for corncrakes

5.1 km² · Scalasaig