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 ...
heraldscotland: Bid to ban maps of Scotland which put Shetland in a box takes step forward
Bid to ban maps of Scotland which put Shetland in a box takes step forward
The Jewish Chronicle: Shetland: Why the northernmost reaches of the British Isles are so fascinating
The news that the islands will be home to Britain’s first spaceport has put Shetland on the map for a worldwide audience, while the hit TV series of the same name, based on the Ann Cleeves bestsellers ...
Shetland: Why the northernmost reaches of the British Isles are so fascinating
Take a 12 hour ferry north from mainland Scotland, and you’ll reach the Shetland Isles – the northernmost place in the UK. The only part of Britain to be considered “subarctic”, the archipelago of ...
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 ...