:''There is also a Seaforth Island in the
Whitsunday Islands of Queensland, Australia''
Seaforth Island ( gd, Eilean Shìphoirt/Shìophoirt or ''Mulag'') is an uninhabited island in the
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides () or Western Isles ( gd, Na h-Eileanan Siar or or ("islands of the strangers"); sco, Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle/Long Island ( gd, An t-Eilean Fada, links=no), is an island chain off the west coast ...
of
Scotland. Unlike many other islands of the Outer Hebrides which are mainly surrounded by open sea, Seaforth Island lies in a narrow fjord-like
sea loch named
Loch Seaforth, from the open waters of
The Minch.
The island has poor soil which only supports rough grazing.
History
There are no census records indicating inhabitation in the recent past, although the loch area was the subject of border disputes in the 19th century. In 1851 these were resolved by the unusual decision to allocate the whole of Seaforth Island to both counties,
Ross-shire and
Inverness-shire, which at the time controlled
Lewis and
Harris respectively.
This situation continued until the 1975 county reorganisation.
Gallery
File:mulag1.jpg, The Island from Lewis and Harris
File:mulag2.jpg, Shore of Seaforth Island
Footnotes
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Islands off Lewis and Harris
Marilyns of Scotland
Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides
Mountains and hills of the Outer Hebrides