A SHETLAND ISLE
PROMINENCE THROUGH FILM'S. The next island to be filmed (says the London “Observer”) is Foula, one of the more detached of the Shetland's sixteen miles west of its nearest neighbour. It has a population of over 100, the men mostly engaged in fishing and the women in agriculture and knitting. Points of interest for the film will be the bird life (featuring the skua) and the precipitous cliffs. It seems probable that Foula is the linguishic original of the Ultima Thule. The word is first used by the Greek navigator Pytheas (about 300 8.C.), and has been generally supposed to refer to the Shetlands. Foula is quite visible on a clear day from the Orkneys.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3803, 2 September 1936, Page 3
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118A SHETLAND ISLE Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3803, 2 September 1936, Page 3
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