WWI & II

Drive over the Churchill Barriers (built during WWII to protect the British navy anchored at Scapa Flow) to reach Lamb Holm. This tiny island was once home to Italian POWS who transformed a Nissen hut into a chapel (right). Divers can explore the astonishing wrecks of multiple German warships, scuttled here in 1919.

Visit Scalloway, former HQ of the top secret WWII ‘Shetland Bus’ – a fleet of Norwegian fishing boats that covertly transported agents and equipment from Shetland to Norway, and returned with refugees. Risks were high, losses heavy. Pay tribute at the memorial by the waterside and drop by the Scalloway Museum for all the heroic detail.