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Template:Use dmy dates There are many small islands in Scotland called Flodday (Scots Gaelic: Flodaigh) or similar and this list provides a guide to their location. The derivation of the name is from the Old Norse floti meaning "raft" or "float".[1] The similar island names Fladda and Flotta are also from the Norse flatr and mean "flat island".[2] Usage is not always consistent in external sources.
Outer Hebrides
Lewis near Great Bernera/Beàrnaraigh
- Flodaigh, Lewis (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), in inner Loch Roag, Lewis, opposite the hamlet of Cairisiadar.
- Flodaigh, Outer Loch Ròg (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), in outer Loch Roag, west of the islet of Hairsgeir and south of Bearasaigh.
Harris
North Uist
- Flodday, Loch Maddy (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), in Loch Maddy
- Flodaigh Beag (Floddaybeg) (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) (the Gaelic meaning is "small raft island") south east of North Uist.
- Flodaigh Mòr (Floddaymore) (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) (the Gaelic meaning is "big raft island"), south east of North Uist.
Benbecula
- Flodaigh (also referred to as "Flodda"[3]) (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), a tidal island to the north of Benbecula.
Barra
- Flodday, Sound of Barra (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), which lies east of Fuiay/Fuidheigh to the north east of Barra.
- Flodday near Vatersay (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), one mile west of Sandray in the Bishop's Isles south of Barra.
Inner Hebrides
- Eilean Fladday (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), on the north west coast of Raasay, just north of Arnish.
- Fladda, Slate Islands (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an islet with a lighthouse south east of Belnahua in the Slate Islands.
- Fladda, Treshnish Isles (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) in the Treshnish Isles.
- Staffin Island off the east coast of the Trotternish peninsula of Skye may have been known as Fladdaidh.[4]
- Fladda-chùain ('flat island of The Minch') (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island north of the Trotternish peninsula, Skye.
Orkney
- Flotta (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island in Scapa Flow, Orkney.
- Calf of Flotta (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island also in Scapa Flow, near Flotta.
Shetland
- Flotta (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island in Weisdale Voe.
- Fladda (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island north of the entrance to Hamna Voe, near the island of Muckle Ossa.
- Fladda (Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), an island north of the Mainland in the Ramna Stacks near the island of Gruney.
Main references
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Footnotes
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Orkney placenames. Orkneyjar. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ↑ General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 22 Jan 2011.
- ↑ "Fladdaidh" Template:Webarchive Staffin Community Trust. Retrieved 12 February 2011.