Isle of Bute

Isle of Bute
Scottish Gaelic nameEilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach
Scots nameBuit[1]
Old Norse nameBót[2]
Meaning of nameUncertain
Location
Isle of Bute is located in Argyll and Bute
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute shown within Argyll and Bute
OS grid referenceNS065651
Coordinates55°49′26″N 05°06′39″W / 55.82389°N 5.11083°W / 55.82389; -5.11083
Physical geography
Island groupFirth of Clyde
Area12,217 ha (47+18 sq mi)[3]
Area rank13 [4]
Highest elevationWindy Hill, 278 m (912 ft)
Administration
Council areaArgyll and Bute
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Demographics
Population6,498[5]
Population rank5[5][4]
Population density53.19/km2 (137.8/sq mi)[3][5]
Largest settlementRothesay
Lymphad
References[6]

The Isle of Bute[7] (Scots: Buit; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach), known as Bute (/bjuːt/), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and lowland areas by the Highland Boundary Fault.

Formerly a constituent island of the larger County of Bute, it is now part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. Bute's resident population was 6,498 in 2011, a decline of just over 10% from the figure of 7,228 recorded in 2001[8] against a background of Scottish island populations as a whole growing by 4% to 103,702 for the same period.[9]

  1. ^ "Map of Scotland in Scots - Guide and gazetteer" (PDF).
  2. ^ Anderson, Joseph, ed. (1893), Orkneyinga Saga, translated by Hjaltalin, Jón A.; Goudie, Gilbert, translated for James Thin, Edinburgh: Mercat Press (published 1990), ISBN 978-0-901824-25-7
  3. ^ a b Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 23.
  4. ^ a b Area and population ranks: there are c. 300 islands over 20 ha in extent and 93 permanently inhabited islands were listed in the 2011 census.
  5. ^ a b c National Records of Scotland (15 August 2013). "Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland's Inhabited Islands" (PDF). Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland Release 1C (Part Two) (PDF) (Report). SG/2013/126. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  6. ^ Haswell-Smith (2004) pp. 23–28
  7. ^ "Isle of Bute". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  8. ^ General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003) Scotland's Census 2001 – Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  9. ^ "Scotland's 2011 census: Island living on the rise". BBC News. Retrieved 18 August 2013.