Islands in Na h-Eileanan SiarNa h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland

The Calanais stones, the white beaches of Luskentyre and Seilebost, Harris Tweed weavers and the mountains of North Harris

2,138 km² · Balallan

The village street on Hirta, abandoned in 1930, under Britain's highest sea cliffs, with huge gannet colonies on Boreray and its stacks

17 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Low island of countless lochans and machair beaches, with RSPB Balranald's corncrakes, Barpa Langass chambered cairn and Taigh Chearsabhagh arts centre

298 km² · Lochmaddy

Twenty miles of machair and beach down the west side, Hecla and Beinn Mhòr to the east, and Flora MacDonald's birthplace

305 km² · Howmore

Flat island of lochans between the Uists, with west-coast machair beaches, the ruins of Borve Castle and the Uists' airport

76 km² · Balivanich

Bridge-linked island in Loch Roag with Bosta beach, a reconstructed Iron Age house and a standing-stone arc by the bridge

20 km² · Carloway

Kisimul Castle in Castlebay's harbour, planes landing on a cockle beach, and a single road looping past machair and white sand

58 km² · Northbay

Flat machair island off North Uist's west coast, reached by causeway, with a long sandy beach facing the Atlantic

8.6 km² · Carinish

Low island at the top of the Uists, with a three-mile west beach, flower-rich machair and the ferry to Harris

11 km² · Northton

Small island of Eriskay ponies and white beaches, where Bonnie Prince Charlie first landed in 1745 and the SS Politician ran aground

7.4 km² · Lochboisdale

Causeway island between the Uists, with the shellfish harbour at Kallin, the Uist Wool mill and a boat museum

6.8 km² · Carinish

Cliff-bound island south of Barra, abandoned in 1912, with a ruined village above the bay and big seabird cliffs

6.3 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Low machair islands west of North Uist, home to one of Britain's largest grey seal colonies each autumn

3.6 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Fishing island joined to Harris by bridge, with a moorland walk to Eilean Glas, the first lighthouse built in the Outer Hebrides

6.8 km² · Tarbert (Tarbert)

Abandoned crofting island off Hushinish, scene of a 1934 rocket-mail experiment, with sandy bays and views back to the Harris hills

11 km² · Hushinish

Privately owned islands in the Minch with 120-metre dolerite columns and one of Britain's largest puffin colonies

1.7 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Uninhabited since 1974 and the setting of the BBC's Castaway 2000, with white beaches, machair and ruined villages to walk between

14 km² · Hushinish

Tidal island reached across the North Uist sands, with the ruined Edwardian mansion of archaeologist Erskine Beveridge and an old chapel site

2.6 km² · Na h-Eileanan Siar

Causeway island south of Barra with white beaches back to back across a neck of dunes, and the Annie Jane wreck memorial

9.4 km² · Castlebay