Harris

Lewis and Harris are a single large island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. It's the third largest island in the British Archipelago, only Great Britain and Ireland being larger. Harris (Gaelic Na Hearadh) is the mountainous southern third of it, with a population in 2021 of 1795, while boggy low-lying Lewis makes up the northern two-thirds. Only in modern times were they connected by road: historically you could only travel from one to the other by boat, as if they were individual islands. Moreover their transport links were to different mainland ports, so they became parts of separate counties: Harris with ferries from Skye joined Inverness-shire, while Lewis with ferries from Ullapool joined Ross & Cromarty. In 1975 a single local authority was created for the Western Isles.