North Haven On History Visit To Fair Isle Halfway Between Shetland And Orkney Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the harbour at North Haven on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Fair Isle, an island located halfway between the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands. North Haven is a natural cove, developed in the 20th century as one of the primary ports of Fair Isle, an outlying island of the Shetland Isles in the North Sea off the Scottish mainland. Measuring some three miles from north to south and a mile and a half from east to west, Fair Isle is Scotland's most remote inhabited island. It lies some 25 miles south west of the southern tip of Mainland Shetland and some 30 miles north east of the nearest of the Orkney Islands. Fishing always featured large in Fair Isle's economy. Dutch interest in Shetland's herring fisheries led to a battle between Dutch and French warships just off the island in 1702. By 1861 the population of Fair Isle stood at 380. This was probably an all time high, for the following year 134 residents emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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