Blog Entries from Scottish Islands Explorer
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Last Update: Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 12:25
Location, views and price are the keys to property-purchasing. Take a look at two Stromness sites that are featured in The Orcadian through J E P Robertson & Son. One is Ocean View, which speaks...
The equipment needed is vast, but so are the reserves estimated. Total Gas has announced a major discovery - a trillion cubic feet of gas to the west of Shetland. Explore the facts and implications...
Apparently some members of the basking shark family, the world's second largest fish, come to Scotland , in general, and the small islands off Mull and Skye, in particular, to use the seas for...
Meteorite material reached Skye, then displaying volcanic activity, some 60 million years ago. It has been identified quite recently and some of it has featured on ebay … for sale. Read about this...
This image of Ulva, Mull, comes from the archives of the now defunct Schools Hebridean Society - so it must be dated. It was, in fact, taken in 1970 since when any island developments have been rare...
It's quite a contrast between the concealed opening The Gloup at Deerness, Orkney, photographed here by Chris Downer for geograph, and the expansiveness of the cliffs of the Mull of Deerness....
Some 600 visitors are expected at the Shetland Wool Week - with events held throughout the islands. Details are in the Shetland Times.Scottish Islands Explorer - items woven on a bi-monthly...
This image, captured by Ian Lawson, of sheep safely grazing at Ardhasaig, Harris, would be of little comfort to motorists stopped or slowed on the nearby main road. However, one lane has been opened...
Part of the 'Hebridean Spine' has been broken, with a landslip between Tarbert and Ardhasaig. See the BBC website for details of this fracturing of the link between Lewis and Harris.Scottish Islands...
You can see why the Ring of Brodgar attracts both visitors and residents to this ancient site. Read in Orkney News something about the ways in which access and appreciation have been improved. ...
