Shetland Islands

They constitute the shetland islands council area and the historic county of shetland.

Shetland islands. The shetland isles a unique place of peace pure air and wide open spaces. Shetland museum and archives. Shetland scottish gaelic. Visit shetland and savour the wildlife the birdlife and the warm community spirit.

The top attractions to visit in shetland islands are. The largest town lerwick is closer to norway than to edinburgh and culturally and geographically they feel more norse than scottish. Best in travel 2020. The shetland islands a large group of nearly 100 islands 30 inhabited are the northernmost part of the british isles.

Magnus bay to the west especially near the strait of swarbacks minn but the number and diverse locations of the shetland islands. There are also numerous islands in yell sound between the mainland and yell and in st. Lerwick is the largest populated town. Map of shetland islands and travel information about shetland islands brought to you by lonely planet.

Best in travel. See all attractions in shetland islands on tripadvisor. Beaches coasts and islands. Shetland also called the shetland islands and formerly zetland is a subarctic archipelago in the northern isles of scotland situated in the northern atlantic between great britain the faroe islands and norway.

The scalloway islands are a small archipelago at the entrance to weisdale voe in the south west. Shetland islands also called zetland or shetland group of about 100 islands fewer than 20 of them inhabited in scotland 130 miles 210 km north of the scottish mainland at the northern extremity of the united kingdom. The shetland islands are the most northerly part of the united kingdom a group of islands 100 mi north of mainland scotland. Sealtainn scottish gaelic pronunciation.

Tamie puffin draastie otter solan goose gannet peerie small simmer dim summer twilight voe inlet of water haaf deep sea fishing. The north isles is the name given to the group including yell unst and fetlar.