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Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
The preserved ruins of a wheelhouse and broch at Jarlshof, described as "one of the most remarkable archaeological sites ever excavated in the British Isles". [1]Due to building in stone on virtually treeless islands—a practice dating to at least the early Neolithic Period—Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric era, and there are over 5,000 archaeological sites. [2]
This is a list of Shetland islands in Scotland. 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.
Shetland. The phrase "Northern Isles" generally refers to the main islands of the Orkney and Shetland archipelagos. The Island of Stroma, which lies between mainland Scotland and Orkney, is part of Caithness, so for local government purposes it falls under the jurisdiction of the Highland council area, rather than that of Orkney.
Shetland is some 300 kilometres (190 mi) due west of Norway [2] [3] and in favourable conditions could be reached in 24 hours from Hordaland in a Viking longship. [4] Orkney is 80 kilometres (50 mi) further to the south-west. [2] Some 16 kilometres (10 mi) due south of Orkney is the Scottish mainland. [5]
The day before the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014, Alistair Carmichael, the MP for Orkney and Shetland, suggested that if Shetland were to vote strongly against independence but the Scottish national vote was narrowly in favour, then a discussion would have to begin about Shetland becoming a self-governing Crown dependency ...
The List of places in Shetland is a list for any island, town, village or hamlet in the Shetland Islands council area of Scotland. Source: ...
The island contains Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick, and is the centre of Shetland's ferry and air connections. Geography. It has an area of 374 sq mi (970 ...