Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the coast and waters on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Papa Stour one of the Shetland Islands. Papa Stour is the eighth largest island in Shetland. Erosion of the soft volcanic rocks by the sea has created an extraordinary variety of caves, stacks, arches, blowholes, and cliffs. Numerous shipwrecks have occurred around the coast. Papa Stour, meaning, the great island of the priests, was an early base for Christian missionaries in the Shetland Islands. Papa Stour has probably been occupied since 3000 BC. The island was later settled by early Christian missionaries and Norsemen including, in the 13th Century, Duke Haakon who later became King of Norway.
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