Flodaigh (Outer Loch Ròg)

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Flodaigh
Gaelic nameFlodaigh
Norse nameFlot-ay
Meaning of name raft island
Location
Outer Hebrides UK relief location map.jpg
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Flodaigh
Flodaigh shown within the Outer Hebrides
OS grid reference NB123413
Coordinates 58°16′N6°55′W / 58.27°N 6.91°W / 58.27; -6.91
Physical geography
Island group Outer Hebrides
Area <10 ha
Highest elevation 22 metres (72 ft) [1]
Administration
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Country Scotland
Council area Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
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Flodaigh is an islet in outer Loch Ròg, Lewis, Scotland. It lies north west of Great Bernera and Little Bernera, south of Bearasaigh and Seanna Chnoc and west of Campaigh.

Loch Ròg or Loch Roag is a large sea loch on the west coast of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. It is broadly divided into East Loch Roag and West Loch Roag with other notable branches being Little Loch Roag, Loch Barragloum, Langavat and Loch Kintulavik. The Loch is dominated by the only inhabited island Great Bernera and East Loch Roag is actually referred to as Loch Bernera on early maps, most notably Murdoch MacKenzie's original Admiralty Chart from 1776. The use of West and East to differentiate the sections of the Loch appear from the original Ordnance Survey in 1850.

Lewis may refer to:

Great Bernera island off the Isle of Lewis, Scotland

Great Bernera, often known just as Bernera, is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With an area of just over 21 km2 (8.1 sq mi), it is the thirty-fourth largest Scottish island.

There are various islets and skerries surrounding the island including Fleisgeir, Sgeir an Saoidhean and the tidal Tamna. [1]

There is no regular access to the island although boat excursions are available locally. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Get-a-map". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
  2. ↑ Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 312

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