Scotland's Landscapes: The National Collection of Aerial Photography

As the glaciers of the last Ice Age receded, humans ventured into the far north, exploring a wild, fertile territory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers at first, they made the decision to stay for good - to farm and to build.The landscapes they lived on were remarkable in their diversity. Vast forests of pine and birch ran through one of the world''s oldest mountain ranges - once as high as the Himalayas but over millennia scoured and compressed by sheets of ice a mile thick. On hundreds of islands ...