List of Special Protection Areas in Scotland
Encyclopedia
List of Special Protection Areas in Scotland is a list of Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

.

"Table of classified and potential SPAs in Scotland" border="1">

















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Site name Site code Country Area (ha)   Co-ordinates  Status
Abernethy Forest
Abernethy Forest
Abernethy Forest is a remnant of the Caledonian Forest near Aviemore, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland. It is an RSPB reserve, close to Loch Garten Osprey Centre, which is also owned by the RSPB. There is approximately 4,000 hectares of forest within the reserve, and just under half of...

UK9002561 S 5793.46 57°13′22"N 03°18′10"W Classified
Achanalt Marshes UK9001701 S 208.25 57°36′10"N 04°53′30"W Classified
Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig
Ailsa Craig is an island of 219.69 acres in the outer Firth of Clyde, Scotland where blue hone granite was quarried to make curling stones. "Ailsa" is pronounced "ale-sa", with the first syllable stressed...

UK9003091 S 99.94 55°15′15"N 05°07′00"W Classified
Aird and Borve, Benbecula
Benbecula
Benbecula is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. In the 2001 census it had a usually resident population of 1,249, with a sizable percentage of Roman Catholics. It forms part of the area administered by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar or the Western...

UK9001751 S 361 57°27′20"N 07°23′30"W Classified
Anagach Wood UK9020297 S Potential
Arran Moors UK9003341 S 10736.51 55°32′40"N 05°13′30"W Classified
Assynt Lochs UK9001591 S 1156.43 58°10′00"N 05°00′00"W Classified
Auskerry
Auskerry
Auskerry is a small island in eastern Orkney, Scotland. It lies in the North Sea south of Stronsay and has a lighthouse, completed in 1866.-Description:...

UK9002381 S 101.97 59°02′00"N 02°34′00"W Classified
Ballochbuie UK9002781 S 1881.73 56°59′30"N 03°19′06"W Classified
Beinn Dearg
Beinn Dearg (Ullapool)
Beinn Dearg is a mountain in the Inverlael area of the Highlands of Scotland. It is most frequently climbed by following the River Lael up Gleann na Sguaib. Starting from near the head of Loch Broom a path follows the glen to a bealach about a kilometre north of the summit...

UK9001631 S 5567.59 57°48′00"N 04°55′00"W Classified
Ben Alder
Ben Alder
Ben Alder is the highest mountain in the remote area of the Scottish Highlands between Loch Ericht and Glen Spean. The vast summit plateau is home of one of Britain's highest bodies of standing water, Lochan a' Garbh Coire. It is the 25th highest Munro, and due to its remote location, one of the...

UK9002551 S 2860.21 56°50′25"N 04°29′45"W Classified
Ben Wyvis
Ben Wyvis
Ben Wyvis is a mountain located in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty, Highland, in northern Scotland, north-west of Dingwall. It forms an undulating ridge running roughly north-south for about 5 km, the highest summit of which is Glas Leathad Mòr...

UK9001641 S 2174.54 57°41′00"N 04°34′30"W Classified
Black Cart UK9003221 S 56.3 55°52′45"N 04°26′20"W Classified
Bridgend Flats, Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

UK9003052 S 331.16 55°46′22"N 06°16′05"W Classified
Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast UK9002491 S 208.62 57°26′20"N 01°48′30"W Classified
Caenlochan
Caenlochan
Caenlochan is a glen in the Grampian Mountains, in the National Nature Reserves in Scotland. Under EU Natura 2000 legislation it is a Special Area of Conservation for botanical reasons, containing plant communities found nowhere else in the UK...

UK9004011 S 5975.28 56°52′54"N 03°17′30"W Classified
Cairngorms
Cairngorms
The Cairngorms are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain of the same name - Cairn Gorm.-Name:...

UK9002241 S 50903.74 57°04′30"N 03°38′30"W Classified
Caithness Lochs UK9001151 S 145516.75 58°20′10"N 03°56′15"W Classified
Caithness
Caithness
Caithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...

 and Sutherland
Sutherland
Sutherland is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic administrative county of Scotland. It is now within the Highland local government area. In Gaelic the area is referred to according to its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh , Asainte , and Cataibh...

 Peatlands
UK9001171 S 1378.45 58°29′30"N 03°20′00"W Classified
Calf of Eday
Calf of Eday
The Calf of Eday is an island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Eday."Calf" is a name usually given to a small island alongside a larger one, e.g...

UK9002431 S 238.03 59°14′24"N 02°43′48"W Classified
Cameron Reservoir UK9004131 S 68.76 56°17′32"N 02°51′12"W Classified
Canna
Canna, Scotland
Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is linked to the neighbouring island of Sanday by a road and sandbanks at low tide. The island is long and wide...

 and Sanday
Sanday, Inner Hebrides
Sanday is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is a tidal island linked to its larger neighbor, Canna, via sandbanks at low tide, and also connected to the larger island by a bridge...

UK9001431 S 1341.27 57°04′00"N 06°30′00"W Classified
Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath is a cape in Sutherland, Highland, in northern Scotland. It is the most northwesterly point on the island of Great Britain. The land between the Kyle of Durness and the lighthouse that is situated right at the tip, is known as the Parph, two hundred and seven square kilometers of...

UK9001231 S 1019.18 58°36′00"N 04°53′30"W Classified
Castle Loch, Lochmaben
Lochmaben
Lochmaben is a small town in Scotland, and site of a once-important castle. It lies four miles west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway.-Notable people:*Angus Douglas - Scottish internationalist footballer...

UK9003191 S 107.6 55°07′12"N 03°25′50"W Classified
Cnuic agus Cladach Mhuile UK9003311 S 29248.97 56°26′30"N 06°00′20"W Classified
Coll
Coll
Coll is a small island, west of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for Breachacha Castle.-Geography and geology:...

 (corncrake)
UK9003031 S 2321.88 56°39′16"N 06°30′05"W Classified
Coll
Coll
Coll is a small island, west of Mull in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Coll is known for its sandy beaches, which rise to form large sand dunes, for its corncrakes, and for Breachacha Castle.-Geography and geology:...

UK9003033 S 371.13 56°36′10"N 06°37′15"W Classified
Copinsay
Copinsay
'Copinsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying off the east coast of the Orkney Mainland. The smaller companion island to Copinsay is called the Horse of Copinsay and lies to the north east to the main island. The island is now uninhabited and managed as a bird reserve...

UK9002151 S 125.42 58°54′00"N 02°40′30"W Classified
Craigmore Wood UK9001801 S 654.09 57°17′00"N 03°37′00"W Classified
Creag Meagaidh
Creag Meagaidh
Creag Meagaidh is a mountain on the northern side of Glen Spean in Scotland. It is a complex mountain, taking the form of a flat summit plateau from which five ridges radiate, and is most famed for the cliffs surrounding the corrie of Coire Ardair on the north-eastern face...

UK9002161 S 2872.64 56°57′00"N 04°35′00"W Classified
Cromarty Firth
Cromarty Firth
The Cromarty Firth of Cromarty') is an arm of the North Sea in Scotland. It is the middle of the three sea lochs at the head of the Moray Firth: to the north lies the Dornoch Firth, and to the south the Beauly Firth....

UK9001623 S 3746.95 57°41′00"N 04°12′00"W Classified
Cuillins UK9001781 S 29490.01 57°14′39"N 06°08′45"W Classified
Darnaway and Lethen Forest UK9020292 S 1828.61 57°32′45"N 03°41′45"W Classified
Din Moss - Hoselaw Loch UK9004291 S 50.59 55°34′33"N 02°18′30"W Classified
Dornoch Firth
Dornoch Firth
The Dornoch Firth is a firth on the east coast of Highland, in northern Scotland. It forms part of the boundary between Ross and Cromarty, to the south, and Sutherland, to the north....

 and Loch Fleet
Loch Fleet
Loch Fleet is a sea loch on the east coast of Scotland, located between Golspie and Dornoch. It forms the estuary of the River Fleet, a small spate river that rises in the hills east of Lairg.-Geography and geology:...

UK9001622 S 7836.33 57°51′00"N 04°02′30"W Classified
Drumochter Hills UK9002301 S 9445.56 56°51′54"N 04°14′48"W Classified
East Caithness Cliffs UK9001182 S 442.62 58°16′49"N 03°20′21"W Classified
East Sanday Coast UK9002331 S 1515.23 59°16′00"N 02°34′00"W Classified
Eilean na Muice Duibhe (Duich Moss), Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

UK9003054 S 576.42 55°43′20"N 06°15′20"W Classified
Eoligarry, Barra
Barra
The island of Barra is a predominantly Gaelic-speaking island, and apart from the adjacent island of Vatersay, to which it is connected by a causeway, is the southernmost inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.-Geography:The 2001 census showed that the resident population was 1,078...

UK9001761 S 144.04 57°02′50"N 07°25′48"W Classified
Fair Isle
Fair Isle
Fair Isle is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands. It is famous for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting.-Geography:...

UK9002091 S 561.27 59°32′15"N 01°37′00"W Classified
Fala Flow UK9004241 S 318.04 55°49′00"N 02°54′20"W Classified
Fetlar
Fetlar
Fetlar is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland, with a population of 86 at the time of the 2001 census. Its main settlement is Houbie on the south coast, home to the Fetlar Interpretive Centre...

UK9002031 S 2594.91 60°36′35"N 00°51′20"W Classified
Firth of Forth
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south...

UK9004411 S 6313.72 56°01′00"N 02°53′00"W Classified
Firth of Tay
Firth of Tay
The Firth of Tay is a firth in Scotland between the council areas of Fife, Perth and Kinross, the City of Dundee and Angus, into which Scotland's largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay, empties....

 and Eden Estuary
UK9004121 S 6923.29 56°24′30"N 03°05′00"W Classified
Flannan Isles
Flannan Isles
Designed by David Alan Stevenson, the tower was constructed for the Northern Lighthouse Board between 1895 and 1899 and is located near the highest point on Eilean Mòr. Construction was undertaken by George Lawson of Rutherglen at a cost of £6,914 inclusive of the building of the landing places,...

UK9001021 S 58.87 58°17′20"N 07°35′30"W Classified
Forest of Clunie UK9004381 S 19349.38 56°40′00"N 03°35′00"W Classified
Forth Islands UK9004171 S 106.01 56°11′10"N 02°33′20"W Classified
Foula
Foula
Foula in the Shetland Islands of Scotland is one of Great Britain’s most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since the turn of the 20th century by the Holbourn family, the island was the location for the film The Edge of the World...

UK9002061 S 1323.31 60°08′20"N 02°05′00"W Classified
Fowlsheugh
Fowlsheugh
Fowlsheugh is a coastal nature reserve in Kincardineshire, northeast Scotland, known for its seventy metre high cliff formations and habitat supporting prolific seabird nesting colonies. Designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest by Scottish Natural Heritage, the property is owned by the...

UK9002271 S 10.15 56°54′45"N 02°11′45"W Classified
Gladhouse Reservoir
Gladhouse Reservoir
Gladhouse Reservoir, formerly Moorfoot Loch, is a reservoir in Midlothian, Scotland, five miles south of Penicuik. It is the largest area of freshwater in the Lothians....

UK9004231 S 186.41 55°47′10"N 03°06′00"W Classified
Glas Eileanan UK9003211 S 1.43 56°29′48"N 05°42′50"W Classified
Glen App and Galloway Moors UK9003351 S 8942.38 55°00′20"N 04°56′30"W Classified
Glen Tanar UK9002771 S 4180.09 57°01′10"N 02°53′30"W Classified
Greenlaw Moor UK9004281 S 247.59 55°44′06"N 02°27′06"W Classified
Gruinart Flats
Gruinart Flats
The Gruinart Flats is a low lying landform on the western part of the isle of Islay in Scotland. The locale is an important conservation area, having been designated as an SSSI. Much of the Gruinart Flats is a marshy area operated by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds...

, Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

UK9003051 S 3261.32 55°50′42"N 06°19′33"W Classified
Handa
Handa, Scotland
Handa is an island off the west coast of Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. It is and at its highest point.A small ferry sails to Handa from Tarbet on the mainland and boat trips operate to it from Fanagmore....

UK9001241 S 367.49 58°23′00"N 05°11′12"W Classified
Hermaness
Hermaness
Hermaness is the northernmost headland of Unst, the northernmost inhabited island of Shetland, Scotland. It consists of sea cliffs and moorland.-Hermaness National Nature Reserve:...

, Saxa Vord and Valla Field
UK9002011 S 1662.92 60°49′19"N 00°54′00"W Classified
Hoy
Hoy
Hoy is an island in Orkney, Scotland. With an area of it is the second largest in the archipelago after the Mainland. It is connected by a causeway called The Ayre to South Walls...

UK9002141 S 9499.7 58°51′30"N 03°19′10"W Classified
Imperial Dock Lock, Leith
Leith
-South Leith v. North Leith:Up until the late 16th century Leith , comprised two separate towns on either side of the river....

UK9004451 S 0.11 55°59′00"N 03°10′15"W Potential
Inner Clyde Estuary UK9003061 S 1826.02 55°56′50"N 04°38′00"W Classified
Inner Moray Firth UK9001624 S 2339.23 56°50′25"N 04°21′15"W Classified
Inverpolly
Inverpolly
Inverpolly is the name given to a large area of western Sutherland in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, north of Ullapool. The area contains several prominent hills, rising up from a rough landscape of bogs and lochans...

, Loch Urigill and nearby lochs
UK9001511 S 1986.3 58°04′30"N 05°11′00"W Classified
Kilpheder to Smerclate, South Uist
South Uist
South Uist is an island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. In the 2001 census it had a usually resident population of 1,818. There is a nature reserve and a number of sites of archaeological interest, including the only location in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been found. The...

UK9001083 S 380.63 57°02′40"N 07°23′24"W Classified
Kintyre Goose Roosts UK9003071 S 412.37 55°31′00"N 05°37′00"W Classified
Kinveachy Forest UK9002581 S 2849.36 57°14′15"N 03°54′00"W Classified
Knapdale Lochs UK9003301 S 112.39 55°51′30"N 05°35′00"W Classified
Ladder Hills UK9002951 S 4240.4 57°12′12"N 03°15′00"W Potential
Laggan, Islay
Islay
-Prehistory:The earliest settlers on Islay were nomadic hunter-gatherers who arrived during the Mesolithic period after the retreat of the Pleistocene ice caps. In 1993 a flint arrowhead was found in a field near Bridgend dating from 10,800 BC, the earliest evidence of a human presence found so far...

UK9003053 S 1230.02 55°43′16"N 06°18′24"W Classified
Lairg
Lairg
Lairg is a village in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland. It has a population of about 700and is situated at the south-eastern end of Lairg is a village in [[Sutherland]], [[Highland |Highland]], [[Scotland]]...

 and Strathbrora Lochs
UK9001611 S 286.3 58°04′45"N 04°24′40"W Classified
Langholm
Langholm
Langholm , also known colloquially as the "Muckle Toon", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the River Esk and the A7 road.- History:...

 - Newcastleton Hills
UK9003271 S 7544.87 55°12′15"N 02°53′50"W Classified
Lewis Peatlands UK9001571 S 58984.23 58°15′00"N 06°35′00"W Classified
Loch Ashie UK9001554 S 162.29 57°22′44"N 04°17′00"W Classified
Loch Eye UK9001621 S 205.14 57°47′30"N 03°58′00"W Classified
Loch Flemington UK9001691 S 21 57°32′32"N 03°59′15"W Classified
Loch Ken
Loch Ken
Loch Ken is 9-mile long freshwater loch in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the Glenkens, where it is fed from the north by the Water of Ken and from the west by the Dee. It continues as the Dee south from Glenlochar, where the water is held back by the Glenlochar Barrage...

 and River Dee
River Dee, Galloway
The River Dee, in south-west Scotland, flows from its source in Loch Dee amongst the Galloway Hills, firstly to Clatteringshaws Loch, then in to Loch Ken, where it joins the Water of Ken. From there, the Dee flows southwards to Kirkcudbright, and into Kirkcudbright Bay to reach the Solway. The...

 marshes
UK9003111 S 769.11 54°59′28"N 04°01′00"W Classified
Loch Knockie and Nearby Lochs UK9001552 S 395.92 57°05′45"N 04°35′00"W Classified
Loch Leven
Loch Leven
Loch Leven is a fresh water loch in Perth and Kinross council area, central Scotland.Roughly triangular, the loch is about 6 km at its longest. The burgh of Kinross lies at its western end. Loch Leven Castle lies on an island a short way offshore...

UK9004111 S 1611.81 56°11′48"N 03°22′30"W Classified
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch, lying on the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the largest lake in Great Britain by surface area. The lake contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles, although the lake itself is smaller than many Irish...

UK9003021 S 510.49 56°03′45"N 04°30′30"W Classified
Loch Maree
Loch Maree
Loch Maree is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. At long and with a maximum width of , it is the fourth largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness. Its surface area is ....

UK9001531 S 3173.66 57°41′10"N 05°28′15"W Classified
Loch of Inch and Torrs Warren UK9003121 S 2111.04 54°50′30"N 04°52′30"W Classified
Loch of Kinnordy UK9004051 S 85.09 56°40′30"N 03°02′40"W Classified
Loch of Lintrathen UK9004061 S 186.4 56°40′40"N 03°11′00"W Classified
Loch of Skene
Loch of Skene
The Loch of Skene is in Aberdeenshire, Scotland some 9 miles west of the city of Aberdeen, near the Kirkton of Skene village.Loch of Skene is home to the Aberdeen and Stonehaven Yachting Club....

UK9002261 S 120.89 57°09′30"N 02°21′30"W Classified
Loch of Spiggie and Loch of Brow UK9002211 S 615.94 57°37′24"N 01°53′00"W Classified
Loch of Strathbeg UK9001551 S 201.15 57°19′54"N 04°16′48"W Classified
Loch Ruthven
Loch Ruthven
Loch Ruthven is a large loch which lies to the southeast of Loch Ness in the Highland region of Scotland. It is 2.25 miles long, extends over an area of 368 acres and is up to 42ft deep. The most important breeding site in the UK for Slavonian Grebes, it has one of the highest populations of this...

UK9001721 S 2290.94 56°50′00"N 05°30′00"W Classified
Loch Shiel
Loch Shiel
Loch Shiel is a 19.3 km2 freshwater loch, 120 m deep, situated 20 km west of Fort William in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland...

UK9002201 S 93.62 57°41′00"N 03°16′42"W Classified
Loch Spynie UK9002751 S 44.6 57°14′20"N 03°48′00"W Classified
Loch Vaa UK9002281 S 1431.28 56°56′30"N 03°16′00"W Classified
Lochnagar
Lochnagar
Lochnagar or Beinn Chìochan is a mountain in the Grampians of Scotland, located about five miles south of the River Dee near Balmoral.-Names:...

UK9002651 S 141.48 59°56′00"N 01°20′00"W Classified
Marwick Head UK9002121 S 8.7 59°06′20"N 03°21′00"W Classified
Mingulay
Mingulay
Mingulay is the second largest of the Bishop's Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Located south of Barra, it is known for its important seabird populations, including puffins, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and razorbills, which nest in the sea-cliffs, amongst the highest in the British...

 and Berneray
UK9001121 S 911.07 56°48′18"N 07°38′33"W Classified
Mointeach Scadabhaigh UK9001501 S 4148.44 57°36′00"N 07°17′00"W Classified
Monach Isles UK9001071 S 595.74 57°31′30"N 07°36′30"W Classified
Montrose Basin
Montrose Basin
The Montrose Basin is part of the estuary of the South Esk forming a tidal basin near to the town of Montrose, Angus, on the north-east coast of Scotland....

UK9004031 S 984.61 56°42′40"N 02°30′20"W Classified
Morangie Forest UK9001791 S 3512.92 57°47′30"N 04°07′15"W Classified
Moray
Moray
Moray is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.- History :...

 and Nairn
Nairn
Nairn is a town and former burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness...

 Coast
UK9001625 S 2410.25 57°38′54"N 03°43′48"W Classified
Mousa
Mousa
Mousa is a small island in Shetland, Scotland, uninhabited since the nineteenth century. The island is known for the Broch of Mousa, an Iron Age round tower, and is designated as a Special Protection Area for storm-petrel breeding colonies.-Geography:...

UK9002361 S 197.98 60°00′00"N 01°10′20"W Classified
Muir of Dinnet
Muir of Dinnet
Muir of Dinnet is an area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland designated as a National Nature Reserve because of its value as a habitat for flora and fauna, and important geomorphological features....

UK9002791 S 157.6 57°05′00"N 02°55′00"W Classified
Muirkirk
Muirkirk
Muirkirk is a small village in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland. It is located on the north bank of the River Ayr, between Cumnock and Glenbuck on the A70...

 and North Lowther Uplands
UK9003261 S 26330.31 55°30′35"N 04°04′35"W Classified
Ness and Barvas
Barvas
Barvas is a settlement, community and civil parish on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland.It developed around a road junction. North is the road to Ness; west takes the traveller to Carloway and the West Side; south runs the road to Stornoway...

, Lewis
Lewis
Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The total area of Lewis is ....

UK9001741 S 649.2 58°29′30"N 06°15′30"W Classified
North Caithness Cliffs UK9001181 S 557.73 58°39′00"N 03°24′30"W Classified
North Colonsay and Western Cliffs UK9003171 S 973.96 56°06′28"N 06°10′00"W Classified
North Harris Mountains UK9001572 S 13132.01 58°00′00"N 06°57′30"W Classified
North Inverness Lochs UK9001553 S 123.21 57°21′42"N 04°30′10"W Classified
North Rona
North Rona
Rona is a remote Scottish island in the North Atlantic. Rona is often referred to as North Rona in order to distinguish it from South Rona . It has an area of and a maximum height of...

 and Sula Sgeir
Sula Sgeir
Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic, west of North Rona...

UK9001011 S 138.81 59°07′18"N 05°49′30"W Classified
North Sutherland Coastal Islands UK9001211 S 221.11 58°33′30"N 04°21′00"W Classified
North Uist Machair and Islands UK9001051 S 4876.35 57°32′00"N 07°22′45"W Classified
Noss
Noss
Noss is a small, previously inhabited island in Shetland, Scotland. It is a sheep farm and has been a National Nature Reserve since 1955.-Geography:...

UK9002081 S 343.82 60°08′40"N 01°01′00"W Classified
Novar
Novar
Novar may refer to:Companies:*Novar plc - the international conglomerate based in the United Kingdom, that was formerly Metal Box, MB Group, MB-Caradon and Caradon plc, and was acquired in 2005 by Honeywell....

UK9020293 S 1054.65 57°41′30"N 04°20′10"W Classified
Orkney Mainland Moors UK9002311 S 4444.35 59°05′00"N 03°08′00"W Classified
Otterswick
Otterswick
Otterswick on the Isle of Yell in the Shetland Islands, on the inlet of Otters Wick. It is on the east side of the island. There is also an "Otterswick" on Sanday in the Orkney Islands....

 and Graveland
UK9002941 S 2241.41 60°33′35"N 01°06′30"W Classified
Papa Stour
Papa Stour
Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under twenty people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s. Located to the west of mainland Shetland and with an area of 828 hectares , Papa Stour is the eighth largest island in Shetland...

UK9002051 S 569.03 60°20′10"N 01°42′00"W Classified
Papa Westray
Papa Westray
Papa Westray, also known as Papay, is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, with a population of 65 at the time of the 2001 Census, now increased to 70 people...

 (North Hill and Holm of Papa
Holm of Papa
The Holm of Papa is a very small uninhabited island in the Orkney islands. It is around 15 ha in size...

)
UK9002111 S 245.71 59°22′40"N 02°52′45"W Classified
Pentland Firth Islands UK9001131 S 170.51 58°44′30"N 03°03′30"W Classified
Priest Island
Priest Island
Priest Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Summer Isles off the west coast of Scotland.-History:It is believed that the island was used by culdees for religious purposes, and has several stone circles.-Geography:...

 (Summer Isles
Summer Isles
The Summer Isles are an archipelago lying in the mouth of Loch Broom, in the Highland region of Scotland.-Geography:The only inhabited isle, Tanera Mòr, is also the largest. It is home to an Atlantic salmon fish farm, some rental holiday homes, a café and a post office, which has operated its own...

)
UK9001261 S 131.68 57°57′40"N 05°30′30"W Classified
Ramna Stacks
Ramna Stacks
The Ramna Stacks are a group of skerries in the Shetland islands. They are north of the northern tip of Mainland, and along with nearby Gruney they are a special protection area on account of their birdlife.From north to south they consist of:*Gaut Skerries...

 and Gruney
Gruney
Gruney is a small, uninhabited island in Shetland, Scotland. It lies north of the Northmavine peninsula of the Shetland Mainland, from which it is separated by the Gruney Sound....

UK9002021 S 11.59 60°39′10"N 01°18′10"W Classified
Rannoch Lochs UK9004021 S 1170.19 56°40′00"N 04°37′00"W Classified
Renfrewshire Heights UK9020295 S Potential
Rinns of Islay
Rinns of Islay
The Rinns of Islay is an area on the west of the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland....

UK9003057 S 9407.46 55°46′55"N 06°21′00"W Classified
River Spey
River Spey
The River Spey is a river in the northeast of Scotland, the second longest and the fastest-flowing river in Scotland...

 - Insh Marshes
Insh Marshes
Insh Marshes are 10 square kilometres of the River Spey floodplain between Kingussie and Kincraig in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland...

UK9002231 S 1158.87 57°05′23"N 03°59′48"W Classified
Ronas Hill
Ronas Hill
Ronas Hill is a Marilyn, the highest point of Mainland, Shetland, in Scotland. There is a Neolithic chambered cairn near the summit.-Location:...

 - North Roe
North Roe
North Roe is a village, and protected area at the northern tip in the large Northmavine peninsula of the Mainland of Shetland, Scotland. It is a small village, with a school with less than a dozen pupils in 2011. North Roe is internationally recognised wetland site, and it is protected under the...

 and Tingon
UK9002041 S 5470.2 60°33′00"N 01°25′00"W Classified
Rousay
Rousay
Rousay is a small, hilly island about north of Orkney's Mainland, off the north coast of Scotland, and has been nicknamed "the Egypt of the north", due to its tremendous archaeological diversity and importance....

UK9002371 S 633.41 59°10′50"N 03°06′00"W Classified
Rùm
Rùm
Rùm , a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum) is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland...

UK9001341 S 10942.38 57°00′00"N 06°20′00"W Classified
Shiant Isles
Shiant Isles
The Shiant Isles are a privately owned island group in the Minch, east of Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. They are five miles south east of Lewis.-Etymology:...

UK9001041 S 212.33 57°54′00"N 06°22′00"W Classified
Sléibhtean agus Cladach Thiriodh(Tiree Wetlands and Coast) UK9003032 S 1938.59 56°30′00"N 06°52′00"W Classified
South Tayside Goose Roosts UK9004401 S 331.01 56°15′54"N 03°50′00"W Classified
South Uist Machair and Lochs UK9001082 S 5017.23 57°18′50"N 07°20′00"W Classified
St Abb's Head
St Abb's Head
St. Abb's Head is a rocky promontory at the village of St. Abbs, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, and a National Nature Reserve administered by the National Trust of Scotland...

 to Fast Castle
Fast Castle
Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside of the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the National Trust for Scotland...

UK9004271 S 250.88 55°55′00"N 02°10′00"W Classified
St Kilda UK9001031 S 865.51 57°49′00"N 08°35′00"W Classified
Sule Skerry
Sule Skerry
Sule Skerry is a remote skerry in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland.-Geography:Sule Skerry lies 60 kilometres west of the Orkney Mainland at . Sule Skerry's sole neighbour, Sule Stack, lies 10km to the southwest. The remote islands of Rona and Sula Sgeir lie approximately 80km...

 and Sule Stack
Sule Stack
Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote island or stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. It is formed of Lewisian gneiss.Sule Stack lies 66 kilometres west of the Orkney mainland at...

UK9002181 S 18.9 59°05′05"N 04°24′15"W Classified
Sumburgh Head
Sumburgh Head
Sumburgh Head is located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northernScotland. The head is a 100 m high rocky spur capped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. The Old Norse name was Dunrøstar høfdi, it means "The Head onto the Thunderous Noise", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost...

UK9002511 S 39.04 59°51′55"N 01°16′05"W Classified
Switha
Switha
Switha is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, south of Flotta, used for grazing sheep. There is no written record of the island ever being inhabited, but Neolithic standing stones and a cairn show that it was at least visited in prehistoric times....

UK9002891 S 57.39 58°47′08"N 03°06′00"W Classified
Tips of Corsemaul and Tom Mór UK9002811 S 83.71 57°26′32"N 03°00′35"W Classified
Tiree
Tiree
-History:Tiree is known for the 1st century BC Dùn Mòr broch, for the prehistoric carved Ringing Stone and for the birds of the Ceann a' Mhara headland....

 (corncrake)
UK9003034 S 544.08 56°28′20"N 06°55′00"W Classified
Treshnish Isles
Treshnish Isles
The Treshnish Isles is an archipelago of small islands and skerries, lying west of Mull, in Scotland. They are part of the Inner Hebrides. From north to south, the larger islands include:* Cairn na Burgh Beag* Cairn na Burgh Mòr* Fladda...

UK9003041 S 240.67 56°29′30"N 06°25′10"W Classified
Troup, Pennan and Lion`s Heads UK9002471 S 172.11 57°41′00"N 02°15′05"W Classified
Upper Solway Flats and Marshes UK9005012 ES 43636.73 54°54′20"N 03°25′27"W Classified
West Westray UK9002101 S 350.62 59°17′40"N 03°00′45"W Classified
Wester Ross Lochs UK9001711 S 1980.26 57°45′00"N 05°27′00"W Classified
Westwater
Westwater Reservoir
Westwater Reservoir is an artificial reservoir in the Pentland Hills, Scottish Borders, 3 km west of West Linton, and 26 km south west of Edinburgh...

UK9004251 S 49.77 55°45′30"N 03°24′30"W Classified
Ythan Estuary
Ythan Estuary
The Ythan Estuary is the tidal component of the Ythan River, emptying into the North Sea approximately north of Aberdeen, Scotland. The estuary’s tidal action extends a full inland and has characteristic widths of between and . Besides the tidal channel there are several types of interfaces to...

, Sands of Forvie
Sands of Forvie
The Sands of Forvie is a nature reserve north of Newburgh in Aberdeenshire in the northeast of Scotland. Forvie National Nature Reserve has the fifth largest sand dune system in Britain, and the least disturbed by human activity. The dune system is an integral part of the Ythan Estuary and...

 and Meikle Loch
Meikle Loch
Meikle Loch is designated – as part of the Ythan Estuary complex along with the Sands of Forvie – as a Special Protection Area for wildlife conservation purposes....

UK9002221 S 1016.24 57°20′30"N 01°57′30"W Classified
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK