This is an incomplete list of Scottish islands ranked by area.
Definitions
Protocol for area measurement
Protocol for ranking
The area measurements should be per the article infoboxes, the relevant archipelago lists and List of islands of Scotland. As the sortable table at this last location creates a very long unnumbered list this table has been created to enable users of Template:Infobox Scottish island to determine the area ranks without having to count such a lengthy list. (Further details are available from Ben MacDui and Finavon who keep a main list on a more user friendly spreadsheet form.)
Only Haswell-Smith provides a ranked table (pp. 502-503) and a reconciliation with it for the largest 100 islands is provided below. Islands marked with an asterisk are not included on this list as he excludes bridged and tidal islands. Livingstone's tables are not ranked as such but easy to sort on a spreadsheet.
Caveat: for smaller islands estimating areas requires a consistency of approach, and none of the sources used provide an explicit reasoning. Thus, for islands such as Stromay, measuring at low tide will provide a quite different result from high tide and below about 70 ha the rankings are source dependent.
The rankings below show all islands >15ha. However, as the measurements for smaller islands are sometimes varied and re-numbering infoboxes can be time-consuming it is probably not desirable to add area ranks for islands <40 ha in area.
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