Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/30


 * ... that the Lang Ayre (pictured), the longest beach in Shetland, has red sand?
 * ... that unlike his father, Ragnall mac Somairle of the twelfth-century Kingdom of the Isles endorsed new religious reforms?
 * ... that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by three English men-of-war?
 * ... that George Leslie Hunter's early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?