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Shetland and Orkney Libraries are putting aside their rivalry with a joint project to boost services for the visually impaired. Shetland Climate Festival programme published Shetland Islands Council has announced the programme for this year’s Shetland Climate Festival, taking place on Saturday 15th June in the Clickimin Bowls Hall.
Shetland. Scotland, Europe. Close enough to Norway geographically and historically to make nationality an ambiguous concept, the Shetland Islands are Britain’s most northerly outpost. There’s a Scandinavian lilt to the local accent, and streets named King Haakon or St Olaf are reminders that Shetland was under Norse rule until 1469, when it ...
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A quick introduction … Lerwick is Shetland's only town, with a population of about 7,500 – although about half of the islands' 22,000 people live within 10 miles of the burgh. Founded as an unofficial marketplace to service 17th century Dutch herring fleets, Lerwick took a long time to grow.
The Shetland archipelago Up Helly Aa festival. 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. The Shetland archipelago comprises about 300 islands and skerries, of which 16 are inhabited.
30 de oct. de 2020 · Shetland is all about islands, which are ripe for discovery and make this a much more multi-dimensional destination than many give it credit for. Off the Mainland, there are small boats to the tiny island of Mousa , with its famous stone broch and storm petrel birds, while the beautiful island of Bressay is just a short ferry ride from Lerwick.
De Shetlandeilanden ( Schots-Gaelisch: Sealtainn, Engels en Schots: Shetland of Shetland Islands, Norn: Hjaltland, ouder Engels: Zetland, in het Nederlands vroeger Hitland) vormen een archipel in de Atlantische Oceaan, ten noordoosten van het vasteland van Schotland. De Shetlandeilanden vormen een van de raadsgebieden (council areas) en ...
