The £6.5 million row over Rockall
It's said that there's ‘no place more desolate, more awful’ - but the waters around Rockall are at the centre of a tug of war over territory
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It's said that there's ‘no place more desolate, more awful’ - but the waters around Rockall are at the centre of a tug of war over territory
Viewed from afar, it’s not immediately clear why anybody would care about Rockall, the tiny, uninhabitable speck of rock brooding 163 nautical miles (188 miles) off even the outermost Outer Hebrides. Up close, it’s even less obvious.
IT was 50 years ago this week that Scotland’s territory was formally enlarged by thousands of square miles when the UK Parliament passed an Act…
AARON Wheeler has chosen a fitting title for his forthcoming documentary on Rockall, that lonely, wind-scoured, uninhabited islet in the North…
IT was in September 1955 that the Admiralty announced that, on the authority of the Queen, a party had been landed on Rockall by a helicopter from a…