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Ascent 255m/835ft
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Ian Battersby wonders at a ferocious Shetland past and present
ESHA NESS is a stocky peninsula that sits at the northern limit of the immensity of Shetland’s St Magnus Bay. Studying the map it’s easy to imagine closing the circle of this C-shaped bay, and let imagination contrive notions relating to its geological birth. Academics have done just that, along with practical studies to uncover evidence left by a violent past.
One theory postulates a mighty meteor