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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...