SNECK O' DA SMAALIE, Foula Foula is arguably the British Isles' most isolated inhabited island. The Sneck is a vast narrow cleft cut through a sea cliff at the isle's western edge. Very dramatic.
DA GRIND O' DA NAVIR, Eshaness, Shetland A headland formed by a part- collapsed piece of cliff where the sea rages in storms and tosses the rocks about forming boulder beaches. It is on the north-west mainland coast of Shetland in Eshaness's red cliffs.
As for the name, "da grind" is Shetlandic for "the gate" and "Navir" is from old Norse for "anger" – hence the sea has worked its anger and produced a gate in the cliff.
DA ERN STACK, Yell, Shetland In the Graveland Herra on Yell's west coast in Shetland. An ern is a sea-eagle and the stack it is said to be the last recorded nesting site of the Shetlandic sea eagle in 1910. The sight is eerie and impressive and lies on a now deserted stretch of cliffs, north of townships cleared for sheep in the 19th century.
THE PATH TO RACKWICK, Hoy, Orkney This path runs between the hills to Rackwick on Hoy from the Moaness ferry pier. This was the old road from the north-east coast of Hoy to Rackwick, a crofting village on its north-west coast. It lies just south of the Old Man of Hoy (a seastack resembling a red indian chief – arms folded) and St John's Head, Britain's highest cliffs. The old road passes between Orkney's highest hill – Ward Hill which rises to 479 metres. Rackwick fell into decay in the 1950s but has since blossomed out again. It is one of the places where the Stromness folk go for a picnic or a few days' holiday.
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