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Sumburgh Head is a headland located at the southern tip of the main island of the Shetland Archipelago, in northern Scotland.The head consists of a 100 m high rocky spur and topped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse.
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, 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 islands lie about 50 miles (80 kilometres) to the northeast of Orkney, 110 mi (170 km) from mainland Scotland and 140 mi (220 km) west of Norway.
Here’s one mystery Detectives Calder and McIntosh won’t have to solve — when Shetland Season 9 will hit BritBox. TVLine has learned exclusively that Season 9 of the Scottish murder-mystery ...
Uyea (Scots: Öya in Shetland dialect spelling) is an uninhabited tidal island located to the northwest of Mainland, Shetland. Uyea lies off the Northmavine peninsula, from where it can be reached by foot at low tide. [4] The island's highest elevation is 70 metres (230 ft) and its area is 45 hectares (0.17 sq mi).
Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of scenic webcams offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world. As the company grew, EarthCam expanded beyond building its network of tourism cameras and extended its reach into other industries by developing and delivering technology for many applications in verticals ...
Shetland is a Scottish crime drama television series produced by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland. First broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013, it is originally based upon the novels of Ann Cleeves and adapted by David Kane.
SaxaVord Spaceport, previously known as Shetland Space Centre, [1] is a UK spaceport located on the Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, the most northerly of the inhabited Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland. The site is near the RAF Saxa Vord radar station and the settlement of Skaw, adjacent to the Saxa Vord distillery.