Shetland is an archipelago of a hundred or so islands in the North Sea, featuring ancient hills, valleys and lochs. The string of islands is known for its remote beauty: it's a 12-hour ferry ride to ...

Hermaness National Nature Reserve, a dramatic cliff-top setting and a refuge for thousands of seabirds, is Britain's most northerly point, located on the island of Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland.

Using hundreds of satellite radar images a research team has created a complete map of mainland Scotland. The first country-wide map of relative land motion has been created by a team at the ...

As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the British Geological Survey might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those older ...

Scotland has a lot to offer visitors - 118 inhabited islands, more than 290 beaches, more than 1,000 castles and more than 30,000 lochs. But many of the sights are separated by miles and miles of ...

THE first geological map of Scotland, made by Louis Albert Necker in the year 1808, was exhibited by Mr. V. A. Eyles, of the Geological Survey, at a meeting of the Edinburgh Geological Society 011 ...

There are certain things a wise politician would never tinker with: big issues such as council tax reform, which are placed in the “too difficult” box and remain unaddressed and unresolved for decades ...