This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: ), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It is one of the more common names for Scottish islands. The names come from Örfirisey which translates from Old Norse

Old Norse

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 as "tidal" or "ebb island". The many islands include:

Inner Hebrides

• Eilean Ornsay
  Eilean Ornsay
  Eilean Ornsay is a rocky and uninhabited island located off the south-western coast of the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It is situated on the western side of Loch Eatharna and is joined to Coll at low tide...
  
  , off Coll
• Oronsay, Inner Hebrides
  Oronsay, Inner Hebrides
  Oronsay , also sometimes spelt and pronounced Oransay by the local community, is a small tidal island south of Colonsay in the Scottish Inner Hebrides with an area of just over two square miles....
  
   (off Colonsay)
• Ornsay
  Ornsay
  Ornsay is a small tidal island to the east of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.-Description:Widely acknowledged as one of the most beautiful tidal islands in Western Scotland, the island provides good shelter to a natural harbour which is overlooked by the...
  
  , by Isleornsay (Eilean Iarmain), Sound of Sleat
• Oronsay, Loch Bracadale
  Oronsay, Loch Bracadale
  Oronsay is a tidal island in Loch Bracadale on the west coast of Skye, Scotland. At low water the island is connected to Ullinish Point on Skye.-Footnotes:...
  
  , Skye
• Oronsay, Loch Sunart
  Oronsay, Loch Sunart
  Oronsay is an uninhabited island in Loch Sunart, Scotland.It is low-lying, barren and rocky, deeply indented with sea lochs.The island encloses Loch Drumbuie , a popular anchorage for yachts and a temporary home to fish farm cages.-Footnotes:...
  
   (enclosing Loch Drumbuie), Morvern

Lewis

• Orasaigh off Leurbost
  Leurbost
  Leurbost is a village on the east coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is approximately 6 miles south of Stornoway on the road to Harris. It is the main settlement in the area of the island known as North Lochs...
  
   
• Eilean Orasaigh near Cromor

North Uist

• Orasaigh N of Vallay
• Oronsay, Outer Hebrides
  Oronsay, Outer Hebrides
  Oronsay is a tidal island off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Lying to the north of Vallaquie Strand, the island has been uninhabited since the Highland Clearances.-Footnotes:...
  
    by the hamlet of Greinetobht (approx 85 ha; 25 m)
• Orasaigh head of Loch Euphort
• Orasaigh Loch Amhlasaraigh (west of Tobha Beag)
• Orasaigh Sound of Harris, by the hamlet of Bagh a Chaise

Benbecula

• Orasaigh Uisgeabhagh
• Orasaigh Loch Uisgebhagh
• Orasaigh N of Meanais

South Uist

• Orasaigh South-west (30m)
• Orasaigh North-east

Barra

• Orosay
  Orosay
  Orosay is a small tidal island in Traigh Mhòr on the north east coast of Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is about in extent and the highest point is .-Geography and etymology:...
  
    North (38 m)
• Orasaigh Castlebay (west)
• Orasaigh Castlebay (east)
• Orasaigh East

Other

• SS Oronsay (1887) (renamed Hainaut after 1900) 2,070 GRT steamship wrecked off Skyros
  Skyros
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   in 1911http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4780.
• SS Oronsay (1900) 3,761 GRT cargo ship, torpedoed off Malta
  Malta
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   in 1916http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4888.
• SS Oronsay (1925)
  SS Oronsay (1925)
  For other ships called SS Oronsay, see OronsaySS Oronsay was an ocean liner built for the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Her maiden voyage started on 7 February 1925 from London to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. She continued on this route until the outbreak of World War II...
  
   Orient Line liner and troopship
  Troopship
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   torpedoed off Liberia
  Liberia
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   in 1942
• SS Oronsay (1951)
  SS Oronsay (1951)
  For other ships of the same name, see Oronsay.SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II. A sister ship to SS Orcades, she was named after one of many islands called Oronsay on the west coast of Scotland....
  
  Orient Line (later P&O) liner and cruise ship, broken-up in 1975.