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Andy Strangeway (born 1965 in Londesborough, East Riding of Yorkshire), 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 . 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 claimed to be the first person to land the four extreme points of Scotland, and the first and so far only known person to achieve this feat. However, having not yet landed on Rockall this claim is disputed.〔http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/conquering-perilous-rockall-1-118623〕 Strangeway is now an access rights campaigner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Scottish Islands Access Rights )〕 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. On 10 May 2010, Strangeway successfully applied for the first ever planning permission for Rockall to replace the Queen's plaque. This he intended to do in 2011 but was abandoned.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rockall )〕 Upon landing and sleeping on the southerly point of Yorkshire on 5/6 February 2011 Strangeway became the first person to not only sleep on the summits of the three Ridings but also the first person to sleep on the seven extreme points of Yorkshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yorkshire Extreme Points )〕 On 31 August 2011 Strangeway became the first person to sleep at each of the six extreme points of Great Britain solo on consecutive nights.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Britain Extreme Points )〕 This is the extreme point route Strangeway took: Thursday 25/Friday 26 – Southernmost point – Lizard Point, Cornwall Friday 26 /Saturday 27 – Lowest point – Holme Fen, Huntingdonshire Saturday 27/Sunday 28 – Easternmost point – Lowestoft Ness, Suffolk Sunday 28/Monday 29 – Westernmost point – Corrachadh Mor, Argyllshire Monday 29/Tuesday 30 – Northernmost point – Dunnet Head, Caithness Tuesday 30/Wednesday31 – Highest point – Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire In June 2012 Strangeway successfully campaigned for the removal of 69 No Overnight Parking signs on trunk roads in the Highlands.〔Mckim, Claire. (9 June 2012) (Ban on parking is... erm, banned | The Sun |Scottish News ). Thescottishsun.co.uk.〕〔(Campaign victory over parking signs ). Herald Scotland (9 June 2012).〕 He followed this in September 2012 by successfully campaigning for an estimated 250 No Overnight Parking signs to be removed from non-trunk roads across the Highlands.〔(Council overnight parking U-turn is sign of the times | Ross-shire Journal | News ). Ross-shire Journal.〕 A few days later in September 2012 Strangeway became the first person to sleep on the summit of all 52 counties of England and Wales.〔(The first person to sleep at highest points of counties to complete challenge in lowly Huntingdonshire – Latest News ). Hunts Post (21 September 2012).〕〔(Andy makes history on county top challenge ). Adventuretravelmagazine.co.uk (25 September 2012).〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Strangeway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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