[jakubw]

Great Britain is the island. Scotland would find it very hard to leave it.

[arethuza]

Well, there are two Great Britains - the Kingdom that was created by the Acts of Union in 1707 and lasted for about a century until Ireland joined, and the island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain