Smithsonian Magazine

New Law Puts Shetland on the Map—and Outside of a Box

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 ...

These Scottish islands celebrate midsummer like nowhere else—here's how to visit

A special magic flows through the Scottish archipelago come summer — visit in June for coastal hikes, boat-fresh seafood and ...
NPR

A New Law For Scotland: Nobody Puts Shetland In A Box

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 ...
Stars and Stripes

On-screen and off, the Shetland Islands have much scenery to savor

There's a moment in the latest season of the BBC crime drama "Shetland" when the camera pans slowly over the cliffs of Eshaness, in the north of the island of Mainland, Shetland. Volcanic cliffs drop ...
Condé Nast Traveler

U.K. Maps Now Required to Give the Shetland Archipelago Some Respect

Nobody puts Baby in a corner, as Dirty Dancing taught us, but when it comes to cartography, stuff gets relegated to the corner of the map all the time. During the Age of Exploration, map corners were ...
The Washington Post

Savoring the Shetland Islands on the small screen

There’s a moment in the latest season of the BBC crime drama “Shetland” when the camera pans slowly over the cliffs of Eshaness, in the north of the island of Mainland, Shetland. Volcanic cliffs drop ...