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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 .
Knab Road, Breiwick Road, And Lover's Loan, Lerwick Old Cemetery, Including Boundary Wall And Entrance Gate 60°09′01″N 1°08′26″W / 60.150215°N 1.140431°W / 60.150215; -1.140431 ( Knab Road, Breiwick Road, And Lover's Loan, Lerwick Old Cemetery, Including Boundary Wall And Entrance
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 ...
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Scotland has around 900 offshore islands, [1] most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides. [2] There are also clusters of islands in the Firth of Clyde , Firth of Forth , and Solway Firth , and numerous small islands within the many bodies of fresh ...
Mainland is the second most populous of the Scottish islands (only surpassed by Lewis and Harris), and had 18,765 residents in 2011 [3] compared to 17,550 in 2001. [ 5 ] The mainland can be broadly divided into four sections:
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.