Using hundreds of satellite radar images a research team has created a complete map of mainland Scotland. The first country-wide map of relative land motion has been created by a team at the ...

Hermaness National Nature Reserve, a dramatic cliff-top setting and a refuge for thousands of seabirds, is Britain's most northerly point, located on the island of Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland.

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 ...

As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the British Geological Survey might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those older ...

THE first geological map of Scotland, made by Louis Albert Necker in the year 1808, was exhibited by Mr. V. A. Eyles, of the Geological Survey, at a meeting of the Edinburgh Geological Society 011 ...

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A new weather map predicts snow for parts of Scotland. This snowfall is expected on October 12 and 13. Areas like ...