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Inhabited, west coast Scottish islands - Mull

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Mull, at around 340 square miles, is the third largest island on Scotland’s west coast after Skye, at around 640 sq.mi., and before Islay, at around 240 sq.mi. (with the largest being Lewis at around 685 sq.mi.) - and fourth largest of the British Isles with Mainland Shetland being larger than Mull but smaller than Skye. Note that none of the above includes mainland Britain or Ireland (which, after all, are islands off the north west coast of mainland Europe). If not for the sound of Mull, running roughly west to east, it would not be an island at all but the southern most section of the West Highlands (the Scottish landmass west of the Great Glen). Mull can be considered as three separate sections. The easternmost is mainly the Ross of Mull which turns west and extends towards Iona along the southern shore of Loch Scridain but also (for me, anyway) all the land east of Glen More. The middle section lies between Loch Scridain and Loch na Keal on the west and between Craignure and Salen