Category Archives: Scotland history & heritage

Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides stunningly featured by National Geographic Magazine

If you love really beautiful landscape photos, and especially with the dramatic background of the amazing Scottish islands of Skye and the Outer Hebrides, then you have to have a look at the National Geographic’s January 2010 edition. Have a … Continue reading

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Scottish place names around the world

From Livingstone in Zambia named after the missionary-explorer David Livingstone (you can visit his birthplace in Blantyre, that’s Blantyre in Scotland rather than Blantyre in Malawi!) to Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania (Lachlan Macquarie, one of the most popular colonial Governors of … Continue reading

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