Eilean Dubh Mòr

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Eilean Dubh Mòr
Location
Eilean Dubh Mòr Eilean Dubh Mòr shown within Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference	NM695105
Names
Gaelic name	Eilean Dubh Mòr
Meaning of name	big black island
Area and summit
Area	65 hectares (161 acres)
Area rank	182^[1]
Highest elevation	53 m
Population
Population	0
Groupings
Island group	Slate Islands
Local Authority	Argyll and Bute

References	^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Eilean Dubh Mòr (Scottish Gaelic: big black island) is an uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It lies at the mouth of the Firth of Lorn, between the islands of Lunga and Garbh Eileach.

Looking from Eilean Dubh Mòr over the anchorage to Eilean Dubh Beag, the two together being known as the Black Isles

Footnotes

↑ Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands >20ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
↑ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
↑ Ordnance Survey. Get-a-map (Map). http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/.
↑ Iain Mac an Tailleir. "Placenames". Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 2007-07-28.

v t e Slate Islands, Inner Hebrides

Belnahua/Beul na h-Uamha Easdale/Eilean Eisdeal Luing/Eilean Luinn Lunga Seil/Saoil Shuna/Siuna Torsa

v t e Argyll Islands

Argyll Inner Hebrides

Islay	Am Fraoch Eilean Colonsay Eilean Mhic Coinnich Jura Nave Island Oronsay Orsay Scarba Texa

West of Kintyre	Cara Gigalum Gigha

Knapdale and Loch Craignish	Danna Eilean Ceann na Creige Eilean dà Mhèinn Eilean Loain Eilean Macaskin Eilean Mhic Chrion Eilean Rìgh MacCormaig Isles

Slate Islands	Belnahua Easdale Fladda Luing Lunga Seil Shuna Torsa

Firth of Lorn and Loch Linnhe	Bernera Island Castle Stalker Dùn Channuill Eileach an Naoimh Eilean Dubh Mòr Garbh Eileach Insh Kerrera Lady's Rock Lismore Maiden Island Shuna

Mull	Calve Island Dubh Artach Eorsa Erraid Gometra Inch Kenneth Iona Little Colonsay Samalan Island Skerryvore Staffa Torran Rocks Ulva

Treshnish Isles	Bac Beag Bac Mòr Cairn na Burgh Beag Cairn na Burgh Mòr Fladda Lunga

Coll and Tiree	Eilean Ornsay Gunna

Firth of Clyde	Davaar Eilean Dearg Eilean Dubh Glunimore Sanda Sgat Mòr and Sgat Beag Sheep Island

v t e Inhabited islands of the Hebrides

Inner Hebrides	Canna Coll Colonsay Danna Eigg Eilean dà Mhèinn Eilean Shona Eilean Tioram Erraid Gigha Gometra Iona Islay Isle of Ewe Jura Kerrera Lismore Muck Mull Oronsay Raasay Sanday Scalpay Rona Rùm Skye Slate Islands Soay Summer Isles Tiree Ulva

Outer Hebrides	Baleshare Barra Benbecula Berneray Eriskay Flodaigh Fraoch-eilean Great Bernera Grimsay (North) Grimsay (South) Lewis and Harris North Uist Scalpay South Uist Vatersay

Coordinates: 56°14′N 5°43′W / 56.233°N 5.717°W / 56.233; -5.717

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