A 1736 map of Scotland—with Shetland in a box. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Flickr Shetland, a cluster of more than 100 islands far north of the Scottish mainland, has long presented cartographers ...
It is 100 miles north-east from John O’ Groats to the Shetland Islands, a windswept outpost of 23,000 souls. Yet on many maps it looks about the same distance east, with the islands transported in an ...
The 18 islands which make up the Faroes are connected by 23 tunnels, four of which run below the sea Shetland wants to ditch ageing ferries and replace them with undersea tunnels connecting five ...