Flodaigh
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Gaelic name | Flodaigh |
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Meaning of name | "Float island", from Norse |
Location | |
Flodaigh shown within the Outer Hebrides
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OS grid reference | NF846553 |
Physical geography | |
Island group | Uists and Barra |
Area | 145 hectares (360 acres)[1] |
Area rank | 124= [2] |
Highest elevation | 20 m |
Political geography | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Country | Scotland |
Council area | Na h-Eileanan Siar |
Demographics | |
Population | 7[3] |
Population rank | 72= [2] |
Population density | 4.8 people/km2[3][4] |
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References | [4][5] |
File:Flodaigh Eaval.jpg
Flodaigh with Eaval on North Uist behind.
Flodaigh is a tidal island lying to the north of Benbecula and south of Grimsay in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is connected to Benbecula by a causeway.
The island is 145 hectares and in 2001 had a population of 11[1] and 7 in 2011.[3] The census refers to the island by its anglicized name of 'Flodda'.
Footnotes
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Scotland's Census 2001 – Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands >20ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013) (pdf) Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland - Release 1C (Part Two). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland’s inhabited islands". Retrieved 17 August 2013.
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