Island’s new hub for visitors

A NEW visitor hub has opened on the most northerly inhabited spot in the UK – a rugged island home to colonies of globally significant seabirds.

Explorers can now enjoy more than a mile of new boardwalk as well as an information shelter and toilets at the Hermaness National Nature Reserve, on Unst, Shetland.

The island is home to important populations of seabirds including puffins, great skuas and gannets.

The walkway, which has been routed to avoid disturbance to rare nesting birds, has been clad with wooden planks to protect fragile peatland from erosion. The £900,000 project aims to enhance the visitor experience at Hermaness.