Islands in HighlandHighland, Scotland

The Cuillin ridge, the Trotternish pinnacles of the Storr and Quiraing, Dunvegan Castle and a long, indented coast of sea lochs

1,628 km² · Portree

Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve with a cliff-top circuit past the Great Stack, seabird ledges, puffins and nesting great skuas

3.3 km² · Scourie

Tidal island in Loch Bracadale reached over a rocky causeway, its grassy slope ending in 70-metre cliffs above the sea

0.23 km² · Portnalong

Community-owned Small Isle with its own renewable grid, the pitchstone ridge of An Sgùrr and the squeaking Singing Sands

30 km² · Cleadale

Long island off Skye with flat-topped Dùn Caan, hand-built Calum's Road, the cleared township of Hallaig and a distillery

62 km² · Inverarish

Mountain island and National Nature Reserve, with the Rùm Cuillin, Kinloch Castle, red deer and a huge Manx shearwater colony

107 km² · Kinloch

Small island under the Skye Bridge where Gavin Maxwell spent his final months, with a Stevenson lighthouse and wildlife hide

Kyleakin

Community-owned island off Ardmair, once a herring station and flour mill, with waymarked walks to the summit and bothy-style stays

1.6 km² · Ardmair

Westernmost Small Isle, run by the National Trust for Scotland, with Canna House's Gaelic archive, puffins on Sanday and a sheltered harbour

11 km² · A' Chill

Smallest of the Small Isles, a family-farmed island with a tearoom at Port Mòr, a sandy bay at Gallanach and seals offshore

5.2 km² · Port Mòr

Pentland Firth island whose last families left in 1962, with an empty village, a lighthouse and the Swilkie tide race nearby

3.7 km² · John o' Groats

Scatter of islands off Coigach, visited by boat for seals, seabirds and sea caves, with a short landing on Tanera Mòr

7.6 km² · Achiltibuie