Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/30

... that the Lang Ayre (pictured), the longest beach in Shetland, has red sand?
... that unlike his father, Ragnall mac Somairle of the twelfth-century Kingdom of the Isles endorsed new religious reforms?
... that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by three English men-of-war?
... that George Leslie Hunter's early work was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?