Whalsay

The Scottish island of Whalsay belongs to the archipelago of the Shetland Islands, located a few kilometers east of the main island of Mainland.

The island is 8 × 3 km in size and has an area of ​​almost 20 km ². The rather flat island reaches a height of 119 meters and is virtually treeless. Most of currently about 1,030 inhabitants live from fishing, agriculture and not yet properly developed tourism.

The menhirs of Yoxie and the Iron Age fort on the Loch of Hoxter are just such signs of prehistoric human presence as Benie House and Burnt Mounds, fields and houses at Loch of Sandwick. The remains of a Causewayed camp at Loch of Huxter are, however, barely visible.

Whalsay offers a rare plant and bird life.

At the time of the Hanseatic Symbister / Whalsay was under the name Qhuallosunt one of the most important trading posts in Shetland, where several Hamburg and Bremen merchants talked stalls. The Hanseatic Booth, a crane house on the pier of the product obtained in the original Hafenbasins evidence to date from this past.

Sodom Cottage ( now one of the Shetland Camping Böds ) lived in the 1930s, the famous Scottish politician, writer and poet Hugh MacDiarmid. Whalsay has a small airport with connections to the neighboring islands and the Scottish cities. There is also a regular ferry service to Mainland, where the piers are underway in Vidlin or Lunnasting Depending on the tide and weather. From Pier then there is a several times daily bus to Lerwick around 25 km away.

On the island is the smallest high school in Scotland. She has only one student. The teachers are flown to class.