Fair Isle (/ˈfɛər aɪl/ FAIR eyel; Old Norse: Friðarey; Scottish Gaelic: Fara), sometimes Fairisle, is the southernmost Shetland island, situated roughly...
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Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland...
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Fair Isle Airport (IATA: FIE, ICAO: EGEF), is a small airport located in Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland...
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Shetland (redirect from Shetland Isles)
Mainland. The other inhabited islands are Foula 17 mi (28 km) west of Walls, Fair Isle 24 mi (38 km) south-west of Sumburgh Head, and the Out Skerries to the...
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The Fair Isle wren (Troglodytes troglodytes fridariensis) is a small passerine bird in the wren family. It is a subspecies of the Eurasian wren endemic...
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SIC Ferries (section Fair Isle)
the Isle of Bressay from Lerwick on the Mainland. Fair Isle service to Fair Isle from Grutness or Lerwick on the Mainland. Foula service to the Isle of...
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The Fair Isle Channel, also known as the Fair Isle Gap, is a body of water in northeast Scotland in the North Sea separating the Orkney Islands from the...
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hotel, restaurants, marina, club amenities and services. First known as Fair Isle, its land was dredged out from Biscayne Bay in 1924 by the Corps of Engineers...
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born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland. As an author she is best known for her widely-read Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting, a guide to the...
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ball which is in play Fair Isle, a Scottish island The Fair (disambiguation) Fairness (disambiguation) Fairing (disambiguation) Fairs (surname) Unfair (disambiguation)...
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shown, going clockwise around the British Isles, with each area except Trafalgar, Irish Sea, Shannon, and Fair Isle bordering the previous. Trafalgar is only...
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Fair Isle (1927 – 1943) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was the top-rated juvenile filly in England in 1929 when she won three...
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from Exeter Airport". 5 March 2020. "Loganair to take on Flybe route from Isle of Man to Liverpool". ITV News. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020. "Dundee...
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Hom of Clett, Scarf Skerry, Stacks of Houssness, Taing of Symbister. Fair Isle; Breiti Stack, Fogli Stack, Hoiliff, Lang Cole, Oa Stack, Stacks of Skroo...
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isles" of Scotland. Fair Isle and Foula are outliers of Shetland, but would normally be considered part of Shetland, and thus of the Northern Isles....
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Campbeltown Coll Colonsay Ronaldsay Inverness Dundee Sumburgh Eday Edinburgh Fair Isle Islay Sanday Foula Papa Westray Glasgow Prestwick Kirkwall Stornoway Stronsay...
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The Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin [ˈmanɪnʲ], also Ellan Vannin [ˈɛlʲan ˈvanɪnʲ]) or Mann (/mæn/ man), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish...
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Scottish Isles during the 17th and 18th centuries that whole families were involved in making sweaters, accessories, socks, stockings, etc. Fair Isle techniques...
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primary ports of Fair Isle, an outlying island of the Shetland Isles in the North Sea off the Scottish mainland. "North Haven (Fair Isle)", Ports and Harbours...
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June 2022, a bird was recovered on an expedition ship MV Ortelius near Fair Isle approx 70 miles off Duncansby Head, Caithness, Scotland and successfully...
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Outer Hebrides (redirect from Long Isle)
h-Innse Gall, 'Islands of the Strangers'; Scots: Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Fada), is...
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The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (/skaɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or Eilean a' Cheò), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands...
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and the village of Wester Quarff, south of Lerwick. Some filming was on Fair Isle for series 2. The Hillswick wildlife sanctuary featured in series 4. Shortly...
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El Gran Grifón (category Fair Isle)
Germany); see List of Ships of the Spanish Armada. She was shipwrecked on Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland, on 27 September 1588. The 650-ton 38-gun ship sailed...
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needed. A couple of months later, on March 31, 1998, the keepers left the Fair Isle South Lighthouse in Shetland, and with that the final Scottish lighthouse...
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like a jigsaw puzzle. Unlike other multicolour techniques (including Fair Isle, slip-stitch colour, and double knitting), there is only one "active"...
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remote islands including Foula. Scottish islands portal Scotland portal Fair Isle List of lighthouses in Scotland List of listed buildings in Walls and...
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area. In time, Cowichan knitters began to embellish sweaters using the Fair Isle technique. The teaching of patterned sweater knitting is generally attributed...
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St Kilda, Scotland (redirect from Isle of St Kilda)
Alexander MacBain suggested "that the ancient Celts fancied this sunset isle to be the gate to their earthly paradise" the connection was more likely...
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