Fair Isle – one of the best
FAIR Isle gets a mention on the National Geographic website as one of the best ten islands in the world, chosen by writer Leslie Thomas.
The island is described as “the most isolated inhabited island in Britain”, and continues: “It is home to only about 70 people, but hundreds of thousands of birds reside here as well.
“Most of the visitors to this wild and wonderful place are bird-watchers. Sheep placidly graze on the steeply angled meadows.”
Other islands in the top ten are: Nantucket, in Massachusetts; Saba, in the Netherlands West Indies, the Lord Howe Islands, in Australia, and Tahiti in French Polynesia.
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