Foula Island, Shetland. At the Edge of Britain
Foula Island, Shetland is out in the vast blue of the North Atlantic, some twenty miles west of the Shetland Mainland, lies a remarkable sliver of rock and heather. Foula, whose name means “bird island” in Old Norse, is the most remote permanently inhabited island in the United Kingdom. Windswept, dramatic, and steeped in stories, …