Shetland Islands
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| Area | 1466 |
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| Population | 23,080 (2017) |
| Largest city | Lerwick |
| Colleges and universities | Shetland College UHI |
| North Atlantic Fisheries College | |
| Did you know | In AD 43 and 77 the Roman authors Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder referred to the seven islands they call Haemodae and Acmodae respectively, both of which are assumed to be Shetland. |
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| ID | 1123495 |
About Shetland 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 Faroese Islands and Norway.
We built a spaceport on a Scottish island
... With help from Shetland Islands Council, the Strangs gauged industry interest in a spaceport on Unst before starting the hard work of persuading Shetlanders, planners and investors to come onboard...
Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage
... In October last year police declared a major incident in the Shetland Islands after...
Has the Brexit fishing promise come true?
... " Winners and losersIn 2019, the top UK port for the amount of fish landed was Peterhead in north-east Scotland, with 132,000 tonnes, followed by Lerwick, on the Shetland Islands, with 28,000 tonnes...
Can the UK's race to space take off?
... The company is making smaller prototypes, before building a larger rocket, Skyrora XL, that they plan to eventually launch from the Shetland Islands...
Homes without power in Shetland as temperature hits new low
... It took about seven hours to move them all, and to allow Shetland Islands Council gritters to treat the surface...
What is it like to be repeatedly asked where you are from?
... They have lived all over the UK - from the Shetland Islands, to Wales, the north-east of England to London...
Royal Mail wants fleet of 500 drones to carry mail to remote UK communities
... In the next three years it hopes up to 200 drones will help carry the mail on 50 new routes with the Isles of Scilly, Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands and the Hebrides the first to benefit...
Antarctica: Invasive species 'hitchhiking' on ships
... And while the industry has been disrupted by the pandemic, that number has been increasing steadily since the first few hundred visitors from Chile and Argentina arrived in the South Shetland Islands in the 1950s...
