Grimsay, south east of Benbecula is a

tidal island A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of ...

of 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 ...

. It is connected to Benbecula by a causeway which carries the B891. In the 2001 census, Grimsay had a population of 19, and 20 in 2011. An extension to the B891 now connects Grimsay to

Eilean na Cille Eilean na Cille, south east of Benbecula Benbecula (; gd, Beinn nam Fadhla or ) is an island of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland. In the 2011 census, it had a resident population of 1,283 with a siza ...

to the south east via a causeway. The road was built at a cost of £1,800 to service the pier at Peter's Port, which was constructed in 1896 at cost of £2,000 – although the anchorage is awkward and should not be used without local knowledge.Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 243, 250 Eilean na Cille

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* Uist islands Tidal islands of Scotland {{WesternIsles-geo-stub