People are always associated with a place because to have a place is to have an identity. Whatever they practice or occupy is formulated according to their sense of belonging and notion of place. This paper is concerned with David Greig's Outlying Islands. The play narrates a journey of two ornithologists, Robert and John, to a remote Scottish island to make a survey of rare species of birds there. They settle in an old place in the island which was a chapel once upon a time. The island is inhabited by an old man, Kirk, and his niece, a young beautiful lady Ellen of seventeen years old. As the two ornithologists come to fulfil their duty, they discover, later on, that they are here after another governmental goal in which birds are to be submitted to an anthrax test. The island has a charming effect on Robert that he feels united with its land. John's attitude differs from Robert's.