User:Crouch, Swale/Island names

Islands that have a different title on Wikipedia than on the Ordnance Survey.

England edit

Scotland edit

("Handa Island" gets about 43,200 results, "Scarba Island" gets about 617. "Isle of Noss" gets about 26,100 results, "Isle of Scarba" gets about 4,720 results, "Island of Scarba" gets about 3,670 results. "Isle of Gigha" gets about 350,000 results. "Isle of Colonsay" gets about 136,000 results. These results are taken from the estimate from the 2nd page of results.)

Càrna/Carna, Scotland [4]
Horse Holm/Horse Island, Shetland Islands [5] (natural disambigation?)
Inchgarvie/Inch Garvie [6] (RM)
North Rona/Rona, Outer Hebrides [7] (natural disambiguation from the one in the Inner Hebrides)
South Rona/Rona, Inner Hebrides [8] (natural disambiguation from the one in the Outer Hebrides)

Missing "Isle of" prefix edit

Scottish island names#Scots and English names "Isle of..." is informal for most islands.

Gigha/Isle of Gigha [9] (RMs at Talk:Gigha) (A-Z Mini Great Britain and A-Z route planner just use "Gigha") (there is Cara Island) ("Gigha" probably means "God's island" or "good island")
Raasay/Isle of Raasay [10] (RM) (OS uses just "Raasay" at smaller scales and A-Z Mini Great Britain, A-Z Mini Great Britain and A-Z route planner just use "Raasay") ("Raasay" means "Roe deer island" or possibly "horse island")

Missing "Island" suffix edit

Great Cumbrae/Great Cumbrae Island [11] ("Great Cumbrae" means "Large island of the Cymric people")
Little Cumbrae/Little Cumbrae Island [12] ("Little Cumbrae" means "Little island of the Cymric people") (HHS uses "Little Cumbrae Island" in lists and index)

Island groups edit

Orkney/Orkney Islands [13][14] (RM) (geography CFD) (HHS uses "Stroma and the Orkney Islands" for the title of section 10 suggesting "Islands" is part of the name however section 3 is "Mull and the Surrounding Islands")
Shetland/Shetland Islands [15][16] (RM) (CFD) (HHS uses "Fair Isle and the Shetland Islands" for the title of section 11)

See also edit

(note that theses names are consistent with the OS or the article doesn't exist yet)

Talk:Isle of Arran#Disambiguation page, Talk:Arran (Caucasus)/Archive 1#Arran and Talk:Arran (Caucasus)/Archive 2#Requested move
Bernera Island [17] (RMs) ("Bernera" means "Bjørn's island") (HHS uses "Bernera Island" on the map on page 114)
Talk:Isle of Bute/Archive 1#Requested move and Talk:County of Bute (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses "Island of Bute")
Cara Island ("Cara" may mean "Kari's island" or "dearest")
Island of Danna [18] (RM) ("Danna" means "Dane's island")
Island Davaar [19] (RM) ("Davaar" means "Barr's island")
Eilean Mhealasta (HHS calls it "Mealista Island")
Isle of Ewe (HHS calls it "Isle of Ewe")
Isle of Fethaland (not actually an island) (Fethaland [20][21] is a nearby headland that the isle is attached to)
Talk:Fladda, Slate Islands#Requested move 2 February 2019
Talk:Glimps Holm#Requested move 14 January 2019
Gruinard Island (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses just "Gruinard")
Isle of Gunnister (Gunnister [22] is nearby)
Handa Island [23] (RMs) ("Handa" means "Island at the sandy river") (HHS uses "Handa Island" on page 189)
Talk:Harris, Outer Hebrides, several RMs (not actually an island)
Holy Island, Firth of Clyde [24] (RM)
Insh Island [25] (RMs) ("Insh" means "Island")
Lamb (island)[26] (RM)
Talk:Isle of Lewis, several RMs (not actually an island) (CFD)
Talk:Linga, Bluemull Sound#Requested move 21 March 2019
Talk:Linga (near Vementry)#Requested move 6 May 2019
Linga Holm
Talk:Lismore, Scotland#Move request (CFD) (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses "Lismore Island")
Little Holm, "holm" means a small island
Longa Island ("Longa" means "long ship Island")
Island Macaskin (HHS calls in "Eilean Macaskin")
Isle of May ("May" means gull island, HHS calls it "Isle of May")
Mingay, HHS uses "Mingay Island" once on page 172)
Isle of Mull (see RMs at Talk:Isle of Mull and DAB RM) (main CFD villages CFD) (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses "Island of Mull")
Nave Island ("Nave means "island of the saint", HHS calls it "Nave Island" on the map and in the position table on page 30)
Isle of Nibon (Nibon [27] is nearby)
Isle of Niddister (there is the Bight of Niddister [28] nearby, could there be a place called simply "Niddister" that isn't on the OS maps?)
North Isle of Gletness (Gletness [29]/Glet Ness [30][31] is nearby)
Isle of Noss [32] (RMs at Talk:Isle of Noss) (Noss [33][34] is on the mainland but nearly 20 miles away)
Talk:Oronsay, Colonsay#Requested move 5 February 2019
Pladda Island, near Lismore, there is also Pladda, a different place just south of the Isle of Arran (same as OS) which means "flet island" and Pladda, one of the Small Isles, east of Jura (HHS uses "Pladda Island" in the index for the Lismore one)
Riska Island
Rùm (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses "Rum")
Sanda Island ("Sanda" means sand spit island") (HHS uses "Sanda Island") (OS uses just "Sanda" at county level)
Shiant Islands [35] (RM) (HHS calls them "Shiant Islands" on page 515)
Shuna Island [36] (RMs) ("Shuna" probably means "Sea island")
Isle of Skye [37] (See discussions at Talk:Isle of Skye) (2009 CFD and 2019 CFD) (A-Z Mini Great Britain uses "Island of Skye") ("Skye" may be tautological, see Etymology of Skye)
Soa Island ("Soa" means "sheep island") (HHS, 87) near Iona, there is also Soa near Coll and Soa, a tidal island of Tiree
South Isle of Gletness (Gletness [38]/Glet Ness [39][40] is nearby)
Soyea Island ("Soyea" probably means "sheep island")
Island of Stroma [41] (RM) ("Stroma" means "Island in the stream") (HHS uses "Island of Stroma" on page 513)
Isle of Stenness (Stenness [42] is nearby)
Isle of West Burrafirth (West Burrafirth [43][44] is nearby)
Isle of Westerhouse (there are places on Unst[45] and Yell[46] but nothing near the island, could there be something that's not recorded on the OS maps)

Wales edit

Gateholm/Gateholm Island [47] (RM) ("Gateholm" means "Goat island")
Grassholm/Grassholm Island [48] (RM) ("Grassholm" appears to mean "Green island")
Middleholm/Midland Isle [49] (RM) (RM2)
Skokholm/Skokholm Island [50] (RM) ("Skokholm" means "Wooded island"
Skomer/Skomer Island [51] (RM) ("Skomer" means "Cleft island"