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FRONTIERS 2023 ISSUE

Offshore wind turbines: how big can they go?
by Johan Daelman
Symphonies of Galaxies
by Eddie McGuire
Restoring life to water systems
by Elizabeth Woodcock
The Ness in the Museum
by Bernie Bell
How governments can achieve complex goals
by Iain Alasdair Macleod
Is small still beautiful?
by Elizabeth Woodcock
Roads and shores of the West
by Bessie Skea
The poet’s song and the fish in the sea
by Howie Firth

News

Caithness astronomers see North Ronaldsay’s dark...
3 min read
Westray and Evie pupils catch the wind and meet the...
2 min read
Capture the sun’s energy at your school
2 min read

FEATURED

Sea and Land Haaf-netting in the Solway Firth
by Ann Lingard
Sea and Land Little flower of the north
by Howie Firth
Sea and Land Exploring Hoy
by Rose Matheson
Sea and Land Islands in the ocean
by Howie Firth
Sea and Land Pilgrims on the Brough of Deerness
by Bessie Skea

Archaeology & History • Frontiers 2023 The Ness in the Museum
by Bernie Bell
Archaeology & History The Earl, the Bishop, and the springtime of science
by Howie Firth
Archaeology & History The Cairns comes to Stromness Museum
by Bernie Bell
Archaeology & History An epic of steam and steel
by John Goodlad
Archaeology & History Sailing with Shackleton – an Orkney link
by Patricia Long

Arts & Crafts Geometry by lamplight
by Mary Leonard
Arts & Crafts FLOW Photofest 2021
by Matt Sillars
Arts & Crafts Sound and music and us
by Clive and Marianne Greated
Arts & Crafts Poetry and landscape: The Standings
by Lisa Matthews
Arts & Crafts Science and the paintbox
by Roy Burdon

Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2019 Living off the land
by Mary Leonard
Foraging & Outings Cromarty and Hugh Miller
by T. Ratcliffe Barnett
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2018 Scenes of Sutherland
by Bob Tateson
Foraging & Outings Knockando Woolmill
by Elidh Myrvang Brown
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2018 On the road in Sutherland
by Howie Firth

Frontiers 2013 • People and Ideas Professor Archie E Roy: a great man of science
by Howie Firth
Frontiers 2019 • People Past & Present The great cartographer: Murdoch Mackenzie
by Bill Groundwater
People Past & Present James Petrie Chalmers – Pioneer of Vision
by Moya McDonald
People Past & Present Courage and determination
by Gavin Scott Moncrieff
People Past & Present John D. Mackay: Man of Letters
by Tom Rendall

Reviews Treacle is Medicine
by Bernie Bell
Reviews Ghostwalk – a novel of ideas
by Derek Ward
Frontiers 2018 • Reviews Music to reach to the stars
by Howie Firth
Reviews Kitchener and the Hampshire
by Julia Anya Guthrie
Frontiers 2016 • Reviews Roads to the future: can sci-fi predict them?
by Mary Leonard

Stories from the Islands The Return of Life
by Bernie Bell
Stories from the Islands North Ron Walrus
by Gavin Woodbridge
Stories from the Islands Fishing in Graemsay: Mackerel lines and lobster...
by Len Wilson
Stories from the Islands Trying out sea buckthorn in North Ronaldsay
by Louis Craigie
Stories from the Islands Sailing into the aurora
by Christine Muir

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About Frontiers Magazine

Frontiers magazine is produced by Orkney International Science Festival, one of the world’s oldest science festivals after Edinburgh. We aim to explore ideas and places, and bring you stories of the islands and people past and present and scenes of land and sea, of making and doing and journeys to new horizons.