This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides.
The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) originally operated in the Hebrides and down the west coast.
The Hebrides also have a living ancient language: Gaelic is more widely spoken here than anywhere else in Scotland.
The Missing Link Campaign Group and the Hebrides Range Task Force jointly commissioned the survey.
The UK government scheme applies to the Hebrides, Northern Isles, islands in the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly.
Uninhabited since 1930, it bears the evidence of more than 2, 000 years of human occupation in the extreme conditions prevalent in the Hebrides.
The MoD said in July that the future of the Hebrides Range was secure for at least the next five years.
The Hebrides Range Task force involves local authority Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Hedgehogs are suspected of having returned to areas of the Hebrides where they had previously been removed from, Scottish Natural Heritage has said.
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The Hebrides Range Task Force said the MoD was opposing renewable projects planned for Uist because the turbines may interfere with military equipment.
Hial's airports in the Highlands, Northern Isles, Argyll, Dundee and the Hebrides connect to a network of more than 30 destinations in the UK and abroad.
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It operates from more than 50 sites on the Hebrides and west coast of Scotland, from the Isle of Lewis in the north to Arran in the south, while employing more than 380 staff.
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The previous year Fowlis, who grew up in North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, became the first Scottish Gaelic artist to appear on Later... with Jools Holland.
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Meanwhile, a cluster of small islands in the Inner Hebrides are being sold on the open market.
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Bird haven Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, which is also the headquarters of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and the Dunes Coastal Park in the Outer Hebrides have also been short listed for the Best Environment Project award.
"This indicates that the wave power resource off the Outer Hebrides is even better than what was thought to be the case, " said Mr Vogler.
But if the aircraft in question, known as Trumper, Piper and Laima, make it to Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, as their owners hope, they will be the first pilotless planes to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed safely.
The mysterious archipelago, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986, and has since become the subject of ornithological study, archaeological fascination and popular intrigue.
You will be disappointed if you book a trip to the Scottish borders if your relatives were from the Outer Hebrides.
At the beginning of the summer it was even drier, with drought conditions for some of the Outer Hebrides.
They were part of the cargo on the SS Politician, which sank off Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941.
Tiree in the Inner Hebrides recorded 129mm of rain - again more than had fallen in July in any other year this decade.
The Outer Hebrides Transport Group said removing road equivalent tariff (RET) from freight would lead to a 175% increase in travel costs from April.
The collectors' items were part of the cargo on the 8, 000-tonne SS Politician, which sank off the shores of Eriskay, in the outer Hebrides, in 1941.
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Kaylee McIntosh, 14, from Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, drowned after becoming trapped under a boat during a training exercise in Loch Carnan in the Outer Hebrides in 2007.
Taken as a whole, it has grown to become an almost indispensable resource for planning a trip to Scotland, with dispatches from Edinburgh to the Inner Hebrides.
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Islands in community ownership include Gigha in the Inner Hebrides.
The tugs are expected to arrive on Saturday at the Village Bay inlet on the east coast of Hirta, the main island in the group, 50 miles west of the Outer Hebrides.
He said he was supportive of the DUP's recommendations for the implementation of a scheme similar to the rural fuel duty relief scheme recently introduced for the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles, the Islands of the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly.
The announcement on the Clyde and Hebrides routes was followed by criticism from a senior councillor on the Western Isles.
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