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Lerwick (/ ˈ l ɛ r ɪ k / or / ˈ l ɜː r w ɪ k /; Old Norse: Leirvik; Norn: Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. [3] It is the northernmost major settlement within the United Kingdom.
Shetland forms one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the local authority is the Shetland Islands Council. The islands' administrative centre, largest settlement and only burgh is Lerwick , which has been the capital of Shetland since 1708, before which time the capital was Scalloway .
Map of places in Shetland compiled from this list The List of places in Shetland is a list for any island, town, village or hamlet in the Shetland Islands council area of Scotland.
Map of the Inner and Outer Hebrides. This is a list of islands of Scotland, ... Lerwick, in Shetland. Originally an offshore island, the loch became cut off from the ...
The Shetland archipelago is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of mainland Scotland and the capital Lerwick is almost equidistant from Bergen in Norway and Aberdeen in Scotland. [1] The Shetland archipelago comprises about 300 islands and skerries, of which 16 are inhabited. In addition to the Shetland Mainland the larger islands are Unst ...
The long southern peninsula, south of Lerwick, has a mixture of moorland and farmland and contains many important archaeological sites. Bigton, Cunningsburgh, Sandwick, [6] Scalloway, and Sumburgh; The Central Mainland has more farmland and some woodland plantations. The West Mainland. Aith, Walls, and Sandness
The ZE postcode area, also known as the Lerwick postcode area, [2] is a group of three postcode districts covering the Shetland Islands in Scotland.The letters in the postcode are derived from Zetland, an archaic spelling of the islands' name that was the name for the council area until 1975.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:25, 26 September 2010: 832 × 1,582 (1.63 MB): Nilfanion {{Information |Description=Blank map of the Shetland Islands, UK with the following information shown: *Administrative borders *Coastline, lakes and rivers *Roads and railways *Urban areas Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 d