Which island lies midway between the Orkney islands and the Shetlands?
Orkney period Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. Orkney is separated from the mainland of Scotland by the Pentland Firth, a wide seaway between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansby Head in Caithness. Orkney lies between 58°41′ and 59°24′ North, and 2°22′ and 3°26′ West, measuring from northeast to southwest and from east to west, and covers . Orkney is separated from the Shetland Islands, a group further out, by a body of water called the Fair Isle Channel. The islands are mainly low-lying except for some sharply rising sandstone hills on
Grey Island (South Orkney Islands) Grey Island (South Orkney Islands) Grey Island is south of Michelsen Island and west of the southern part of Fredriksen Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was first charted and named "Holmen Graa" (Grey Island) on a map by the Norwegian whaler Captain Petter Sorlle, who made a running survey of the South Orkney Islands in 1912–13. The anglicised form appears on the chart by Discovery Investigations personnel on the "Discovery II" who surveyed the islands in 1933. The island lies within an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 111). It is also part of the Southern Powell