![Longay](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Longay.jpg)
Longay ( gd, Longaigh) is a small uninhabited
Scottish island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
in the
Inner Sound just off the coast of the
Isle of Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated ...
, north of
Pabay
Pabay is a Scottish island just off the coast of Skye. The name Pabay is derived from an old Norse word meaning "priest's isle" and there are the remains of a 13th-century chapel.
Geography
Pabay is an island in the Inner Sound of Skye, lying ...
and east of
Scalpay.
In 1971, the
Caledonian MacBrayne
Caledonian MacBrayne ( gd, Caledonian Mac a' Bhriuthainn), usually shortened to CalMac, is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west ...
mailboat ''Loch Seaforth'' ran aground on the island, sustaining only minimal damage.
References
Uninhabited islands of Highland (council area)
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