"It seems to me a bit strange not to have the sea as part of the geography of Scotland. It's the reality of where we are." Enlarge this image. In a 2011 torch relay before the 2012 Olympic Games, ...

A poll by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) and the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers (SAGT) found 87 per cent of teachers… ...

Because of its remote location, cartographers have long taken the same approach to representing the Scottish archipelago on maps: they draw a box around it, and put that box wherever it fits.