Andy Strangeway

Who is Andy Strangeway?

Andy Strangeway, a decorator, adventurer and islomaniac from the Yorkshire Wolds, is the first – and so far the only – person to complete the challenge of landing and sleeping on all 162 of Scotland's islands of 40 hectares and above. One definition of an island is that used by Hamish Haswell-Smith in his book The Scottish Islands first published by Canongate in 1999. This list excludes bridged islands such as Skye and tidal islands such as Oronsay that are much larger than 40 hectares. Strangeway's definition is simply "a piece of land surrounded by sea that you can't walk to".

⁕On 28 August 2007, Strangeway landed on Soay, St. Kilda becoming the first person on record to land on all of the major Scottish islands.

⁕On 29 August, he become the first person to sleep on them all.

On Saturday 8 August 2009, upon landing Out Stack, Andy Strangeway became the first person to land the four extreme points of Scotland, and is the first and so far only known person to achieve this feat.

Strangeway is now an access rights campaigner.

On Saturday 6 March 2010, Strangeway assisted Uri Geller to land and sleep on the island of Lamb which he had bought a year earlier. It was Geller's first visit and Strangeway's second.