A new law taking force in Scotland this month imposes strict regulations on how government mapmakers draw the Shetland Islands, a modest archipelago located approximately 100 miles off the British ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent trip to Great Britain, I decided at the last minute to snip two days off from my time in London and go somewhere I've never been before: the Orkney Islands. Perched just an hour's ferry ...

Most of the 900-odd islands and islets off the coast of Scotland can be grouped into four main archipelagos: Shetland and Orkney in the north, and the Inner and Outer Hebrides in the west. They’re ...

I spent three days exploring the Scottish isles of Barra, Seil, and Easdale. Island-hopping was a fantastic experience, but I made some mistakes in each place I visited. Next time, I'll visit during ...

Two tiny lambs were staring at us. Fluffy and white, with adorable pink ears, they stood together on an emerald hillside observing the curious parade of slicker-clad hikers trudging by. It’s misty ...