Sentences with phrase «remote shetland»

A Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd RA presents the artist's series of forty watercolour sketches of the beautifully remote Shetland Islands.

We even venture to the remote Shetland Isles to celebrate Up Helly Aa Viking Fire Festival!

Shelties kept birds of prey away from lambs on remote Shetland.

June 30, 2014 • Offshore oil and gas money is central to the debate over whether Scotland should break off from the U.K. — especially in the remote Shetland Islands, where North Sea oil has transformed the economy.

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He was in Glasgow speaking to the CBI and he was in Shetland which was about as remote as it's possible to get, but he's not about to do a walkabout on a Scottish high street any time soon.»

With the aim of making the festival accessible to all young people including those in disadvantaged or remote areas — many of whom have never before visited a cinema — screenings will be held in over 500 cinemas across all the major chains, and a range of venues across the UK from the ICA in London and the Millennium Centre in Wales, to independent cinemas on the Shetland Islands and the Isle of Skye.

Long isolated on remote Scottish islands, the «Shetland Collie» did not become officially recognized by the English Kennel Club until 1909.

This trip visits remote crofting communities and picturesque villages of the Hebrides and the Orkney and Shetland Islands, discovering some of the world's largest seabird colonies.

The islands bordering the Scotia Sea are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow year round; despite these harsh conditions, however, the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands, and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea, as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano called Bouvet Island.

The equally remote and beautiful Shetland Islands also feature in this itinerary.

Norman Ackroyd: A Shetland Notebook is a necessity for any Ackroyd admirer; here he has comprised a series of forty watercolour sketches of these remote and picturesque islands.

Shetland About Blog I am an expat Canadian living in Shetland, a remote archipelago in the North Sea.