What is the remotest ...

[Sybarite]

a) British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis?
b) "Ditto" and currently inhabited?

Idling around Google Earth I came upon these two trivia questions.

John

 

[lenseman]

a) British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis?
b) "Ditto" and currently inhabited?

Idling around Google Earth I came upon these two trivia questions.

John

Discounting Rockall which is never really habitable, the most remote uninhabited has to be St Kilda.

One of the Scottish outer isles including Orkney and Shetland has to now now have the remotest inhabited discounting the Channel Isles.

 

[Sybarite]

a) Nope
b) Getting warm

 

[lenseman]

I presume we are talking about "the" British Isles and not some remote British Isle somewhere in the south Atlantic like Bouvet?

 

[NickiCrutchfield]

I too am struggling to understand the question.

 

[Kelpie]

a) British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis?
b) "Ditto" and currently inhabited?

Idling around Google Earth I came upon these two trivia questions.

John

Sorry I'm being thick, could I hear the question again?
In what way are (a) and (b) different?

FWIW, I believe that Fair Isle is the most remote place which is truly 'inhabited' by a community of long term residents. St Kilda is 'occupied' by people allowed to be there to do certain jobs for short periods of time.

 

[Sybarite]

yes

 

[Sybarite]

"British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis? " but may not be necessarily inhabited today. (Hint: it's remoter than St Kilda.)

Bingo for Fair Isle.

 

[dmmbruce]

Foula

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Flannan Isles

 

[Ludd]

"British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis? " but may not be necessarily inhabited today. (Hint: it's remoter than St Kilda.)

Bingo for Fair Isle.

North Rona?

 

[Kelpie]

Ah yes, that'll be Rona then!
I'm hoping to get up there in the summer, I'm involved with a couple of organisations which have two dipping lug boats of the traditional type common round here a century ago. One of them, SY233 Jubilee, was the last craft to take the guga hunters to Sula Sgeir by sail power, in 1947. Since 2010 is the boat's 75th birthday, we're hoping to repeat the trip, and it will involve a stopover at Rona as that's the nearest anchorage.

 

[Ubergeekian]

a) British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis?

St Agnes. Well, from where I am it is!

 

[Sybarite]

Well done.

 

[snowleopard]

The Isle of Dogs.

Many of the occupants are on a different planet.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

a) British Isles island inhabited on a long term basis?
b) "Ditto" and currently inhabited?

Idling around Google Earth I came upon these two trivia questions.

John

a) South Georgia
b) South Georgia

Though b) depends on your definition of inhabited.

 

[Sybarite]

" Though b) depends on your definition of inhabited. "


Depends on your definition of the British Isles....

John

 

[alan_d]

" Though b) depends on your definition of inhabited. "


Depends on your definition of the British Isles....

... and on your definition of remote. Remote from where?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

" Though b) depends on your definition of inhabited. "


Depends on your definition of the British Isles....

John

The OP said "British Isles island". South Georgia is an Overseas territory of Great Britain and so fulfils this as an Island that belongs to Great Britain!

I declare an interest: www.sggis.gov.gs!

 

[pyrojames]

a) British Indian Ocean Territories. (inhabited in small part by the US Military
b) British Indian Ocean Territories (uninhabited for the most part over 200 nm between inhabited and unihabited islands, and about 400 nm south of the Maldives)