Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. This sandbar connecting St Ninian's Isle with the mainland of ...

From left: A home in Bigton, in Scotland’s Shetland Islands; Lerwick, the archipelago’s main town. That transnational history is also visible in other aspects of Shetland culture. First-time visitors ...

The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Lying roughly 100 km north of the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Islands ...

About three hundred years ago a rural farming community in the Shetland Islands, Britain’s northernmost group of islands, was overwhelmed by windblown sand. The environmental catastrophe was probably ...

The festival of the intricately crafted textiles of the Shetland Islands, a remote archipelago off Scotland’s coast, draws hundreds of knitters from around the world for all things wool. The sheep are ...

A significant portion of the Shetland Islands is now available for purchase. Located about 110 miles from mainland Scotland, floating in the North Sea between the Faroe Islands and Norway, is the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland declared its independence from the United Kingdom on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency ...

Scotland is famous for its dramatic landscapes, but beyond the well-traveled Isle of Skye lie lesser-known islands that offer breathtaking scenery, rich history, and authentic local culture — ideal ...