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Our islands’ story

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

7 October 2017

9:00 AM

Britain has 6,000 islands. Not as many as Sweden’s 30,000 but quite enough to be going on with. Only 132 of ours are populated, on a scale that slides from the 85,000 people on the Isle of Man to tiny St Kilda, with its summertime population of just 15.

Patrick Barkham is a skilled compiler of lists.

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