The Shetland Islands | The Unbelievable Hidden Treasure of Scotland
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Shetland Islands - North Link Ferry Experience and Must Visit in Shetland | Scotland
I just visited Shetland Islands, one of the hidden gems in Scotland. Shetland is group of islands located in Northern Isles of Scotland and can be visited by an overnight ferry from Aberdeen, Scotland.
North Link Ferry is the only company the operates ferry to Shetland Islands. You can book the ferry from Aberdeen to Lerwick, the capital of Shetland.
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Shetland Islands have many beautiful, unexplored places and you can spends days visiting them. But, if like me, you only have a day in Shetland, then follow my itinerary.
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One day in Shetland Itinerary
- Ferry from Aberdeen to Shetland arrives in Lerwick by 7.30 am.
- Have breakfast at the ferry and start by 8.30 am.
- Drive to Sumburgh Head, the southernmost part of Shetlands.
Visit the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse and enjoy the nature reserve. You can sight some puffins if you are visiting in summers.
- Moving north towards Sumburgh Airport, you will see Jarlshof Prehistoric Settlements. Explore the 4000 years old site and learn about Viking history.
- Head towards south-west coast to visit St.Ninian's Isle. It's a stunning island attached to the mainland by a strip of land. On a sunny day you can find some locals kite surfing here. It's a stunning island; enjoy some beach time.
- Move towards North Atlantic Coast to visit largest island in Shetland, Scalloway. See the Scalloway Castle and Scalloway Museum. Scalloway Castle has free entry. You can get the keys for the castle from the museum or nearby Scalloway Hotel.
- Enjoy lunch in Scalloway
- Return to Lerwick and visit Shetland Museum and Archives. Learn about fascinating history and culture of Shetland islands.
- End your day by exploring the Lerwick city.
- Board the ferry back to Aberdeen - 17.30 pm (for Kirkwall and Aberdeen) and 19.00 pm (for the direct ferry to Aberdeen).
Must Visit in Shetland Islands
1. Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
2. Jarlshof Prehistoric Settlements
3. St. Ninian's Isle
4. Scalloway Castle
5. Scalloway Museum
6. Shetland Museum and Archives
7. Lerwick City
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What is Shetland? Explain Shetland, Define Shetland, Meaning of Shetland
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Description: Shetland , also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain. The islands lie some 80 km to the northeast of Orkney, 168 km from the Scottish mainland and 280 km southeast of the Faroe Islands. They form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total area is 1,466 km2 , and the population totalled 23,210 in 2011. Comprising the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, Shetland Islands Council is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the islands' administrative centre and only burgh is Lerwick, which has also been the capital of Shetland since taking over from Scalloway in 1708. The largest island, known as the Mainland, has an area of 967 km2 , making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth-largest of the British Isles. There are an additional 15 inhabited islands. The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugged coastline and many low, rolling hills. Humans have lived in Shetland since the Mesolithic period. The earliest written references to the islands date to Roman times. The early historic period was dominated by Scandinavian influences, especially from Norway, and the islands did not become part of Scotland until the 15th century. When Scotland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, trade with northern Europe decreased. Fishing has continued to be an important aspect of the economy up to the present day. The discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s significantly boosted Shetland's economy, employment and public sector revenues. The local way of life reflects the Scottish and Norse heritage of the isles, including the Up Helly Aa fire festival, and a strong musical tradition, especially the traditional fiddle style. The islands have produced a variety of writers of prose and poetry, often in the distinct Shetland dialect of Scots. There are numerous areas set aside to protect the local fauna and flora, including a number of important sea bird nesting sites. The Shetland pony and Shetland Sheepdog are two well-known Shetland animal breeds. Other local breeds include the Shetland sheep, cow, goose, and duck. The Shetland pig, or grice, has been extinct since about 1930. The islands' motto, which appears on the Council's coat of arms, is Með lögum skal land byggja. This Old Norse phrase is taken from the Danish 1241 Basic Law, Code of Jutland, and is also mentioned in Njáls saga, and means By law shall land be built.
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Market Cross, Lerwick Shetland, Shetland Islands
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Main town square - market cross - in Lerwick, Shetland. This area is the centre of lerwick's town, near the waterfront of Lerwick Harbour.
The street has lots of local shops and this location is where the main tourist office is for all of Shetland's visitors to find out information on where to go in shetland and what to do.
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Shetland , also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain. The islands lie some 80 km to the northeast of Orkney, 168 km from the British mainland and 280 km southeast of the Faroe Islands. They form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total area is 1466 km2, and the population totalled 23,210 in 2011. Comprising the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, Shetland Islands Council is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland; the islands' administrative centre and only burgh is Lerwick, which has also been the capital of Shetland since taking over from Scalloway in 1708. The largest island, known as the Mainland, has an area of 967 km2, making it the third-largest Scottish island and the fifth-largest of the British Isles. There are an additional 15 inhabited islands. The archipelago has an oceanic climate, a complex geology, a rugge...
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Commuting by ferry in Shetland
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The Shetlanders - The Unlikely Locavore Champion
“When I first saw the ad for a job in Shetland, my first thought was: Where the hell’s that?” For chef Akshay Borges, the answer was: somewhere very, very different to home. Akshay was brought up in Mumbai, the Indian megacity which is in the top five most densely populated cities on Earth, with more than 70,000 people per square mile. Shetland averages 40 people per square mile, even if most square miles are home to far fewer than that. Sheep outnumber humans by roughly four to one.
Almost nine years later, it’s fair to say that Akshay has settled into Shetland life. When we meet, he’s channeling his original Google search by wearing a brown Fair Isle jumper. At the fishmongers in Scalloway, and walking down Lerwick’s Commercial Street, he seems to know everyone. As he puts it: “I don’t have any family here, so it feels like everyone’s my family.”
More than simply settling in, Akshay has become an unlikely champion of Shetland local produce, especially its seafood, becoming part of a new wave of Shetlanders who are re-evaluating the islands’ natural offerings. In the summer of 2018, he’s set to open The String, a two-storey Lerwick restaurant and live music venue, which celebrates the Shetland tradition of raucous live jams as well as its position as arguably the fishing capital of the UK.
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The Shetlanders: The Marine Educator - Beth Mouat
Meet Beth Mouat, who is like many Shetlanders in that she grew up fascinated by the sea that surrounds her. Today, she’s the Joint Head of Marine Science and Technology at the NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway, which provides research and training for Shetland’s all-important fishing and aquaculture industries.
Those industries are worth more than GBP300 million to the islands’ economy, and more fish is landed in Shetland than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland combined. Beth’s team do the background research to ensure that the fishery is as clean, sustainable and innovative as it can be, from one-man lobster operations to mussel farms and huge pelagic trawlers. The NAFC also offers more than 140 courses, including hands-on modern apprenticeships, for people wanting to study fishing and aquaculture.
“All the seafood we produce is of a very high quality,” says Beth. “It’s partly to do with the clean environment, and partly to do with how the fishermen look after their catch, and how closely monitored the industry is. It’s a very clean fishery, too, with minimal bycatch.”
Fishing, and the sea, aren’t just economically important to Shetland. “When you grow up here, the sea’s in your blood,” says Beth. “It runs through just about every aspect of our culture, and it’s always there somehow.”
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Shetland Family History
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The Shetlanders - the running jeweller
Sophie Whitehead is one of life’s enthusiasts. About running, about her friends, about her jewellery, about Shetland, about life. Her laugh erupts regularly, and almost seismically. Her Instagram feed, the appropriately-named @sophie_sunshine28, is like a paid-for advert for life in Shetland: clifftop walks, kayaking trips, nights in stone bothies and midnight trips to the Broch of Mousa, Scotland’s best-preserved Iron Age broch. Except hers is entirely authentic.
We first meet at Shetland Jewellery, Sophie’s day job, where she designs and makes jewellery inspired by the islands. She’s part of a team of ten, who work in a little pebbledash workshop overlooking the tranquil Hellister Loch near the village of Weisdale.
Shetland Jewellery has been going since 1953, and the team design and hand-make more than 40 ranges of jewellery, which take their cues from everything from Norse mythology to maps of Shetland, Fair Isle knitting patterns or the ‘Simmermal Dance’, the Shetland phrase for the shimmering haze on a hot day. Reflecting Shetland itself, most of the ranges have Celtic or Viking influences.
Sophie’s personal designs include the Peerie Smoorikins (“little kisses”) range, with its silver hearts, and a range of bracelets, pendants and rings inspired by the Mirrie Dancers, the Shetland word for the Northern Lights. “We’re just trying to grasp a little bit of Shetland with our designs,” she says.
Sophie’s accent—Northeast of England, with a few Shetland twangs and phrases—betrays the fact that she isn’t a native. She grew up in Northumberland, and got to know Shetland from coming here with her father, a musician. After an art foundation course in Newcastle, she “hassled” Shetland Jewellery to give her an apprenticeship, and moved up at the age of 19. “It was a culture shock,” she says. “But, despite there not being as much clubbing as I was used to in Newcastle, there was a lot of partying. Every weekend we were out doing something—meeting people, listening to music.”
The reason Sophie has stayed so long in Shetland comes down to a lot of things, she says—the scenery, the creativity, the beautiful commute—but most of all it comes down to people, and friendship. “My friends here are just amazing,” she says. “They’re always there for me, and up for going on little adventures.” It’s been that way since she arrived as the new girl from Northumberland. “People here are really welcoming, especially with new people. No one likes you feeling left out, so you’re welcomed into peoples’ homes, invited to weddings, that kind of thing. Everyone just wants you to feel welcome, and wants you to be part of it.”
But perhaps the most telling glimpse of Sophie’s Shetland comes the following week. On the Tuesday night, we ask Sophie if she might be able to gather a few friends for a shoot the following night at St Ninian’s, the beach and island that might be Shetland’s most famous beauty spot.
Expecting just a few folk to turn up, the following evening motorbikes, cars and camper vans converge on the little car park overlooking the beach. At almost no notice, Sophie has gathered a crew of around twenty people, who turn up with bags of firewood, barbecue meat and craft beer from the Valhalla Brewery, Britain’s northernmost brewery on the island of Unst. “These are my mates,” she says, proudly gesturing at the crew she’s assembled as they troop down to the beach, ready to build a bonfire. Then she lets out one of her big laughs.
Sophie’s friends are indeed welcoming and friendly, including Kaylee, who is back from Buckingham Palace with tales of meeting Camilla Parker-Bowles, and being the only member of the coastguard to turn up in a frock rather than her coastguard getup. We’re treated like part of the group, not outsiders.
Sophie describes the vibe amongst her friends as “that cosy Sunday lunch feeling”, and there is something special about sitting around that bonfire, with the summer sun lowering behind the absurdly beautiful St Ninian’s Isle, at the end of the white-sand spit (or tombolo, to use the proper term).
As we drive away to catch the ferry, we see Sophie and a group of her mates head towards the water, splashing around and taking selfies as the sun sets, with the summer’s evening giving way to what locals call the “simmer dim”, when it never gets truly dark. This seems like Sophie’s happy place—and it looks like a pretty nice place to be.
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Referendum Road: The view from the Shetland Islands - BBC Newsnight
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Scotland Shetland Island Mousa Nature Reserve Tour
A cruise excursion to the Shetland Islands Mousa Nature Reserve in Scotland, United Kingdom.
The Shetland's Welcome - 1960
Her Majesty's visit had had to be postponed from last year, but now, from Britannia, the Queen came with Prince Philip to land at Lerwick. The visit was the first made to the Shetland's by a monarch, since the Norse King Haakon came some 700 years ago. Crofters, fishermen and Lifeboatmen, they all greeted Her Majesty, and there was a Rolls for the royal visitors, a 30-year-old vintage masterpiece. The Queen went to see an exhibition of island produce, and accepted the gift of a pedigree filly, named Valkyrie, when she continued her tour of the islands.
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The Shetlanders - the seaside crofters
Life at Channerwick, in the only house on the bay, can seem more like a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall reverie than an actual existence. When Ewen isn’t upstairs, hand-making his beautiful creations for local and worldwide export, he and Emma manage the family croft, which includes 36 breeding ewes, kept in a nearby field and fed mainly feed grown at Channerwick. Like their sheep, the family are almost entirely self-sustained: their meat comes from their own livestock, and they grow all their own vegetables, mostly in Emma’s greenhouse up from the bay.
When there’s “weather”, in local parlance, the family will head out fishing in their newly-painted yoal, a traditional Shetland rowing boat. At weekends, that includes Martha Thomson, recently qualified in zoology from Glasgow University, who spends her weekdays as an RSPB warden on the remote northern isle of Fetlar, including monitoring the island’s small but important colony of rare red-necked phalaropes.
Martha’s at home on the sunny May day we meet, though her brother Harry is still off at university, studying mechanical engineering, also at Glasgow. Settled on the sofa, in the sun-dappled living room, with a wall of books behind them and an unbroken view out to sea, the three of them start to talk about their life in Shetland.
Emma comes from the Southeast of England, and was studying at Cambridge when she came to Fair Isle in the summer of 1993. “It was so appealing seeing a community working so closely together to keep themselves going,” she says of the tiny island, 26 miles south of the Shetland mainland, which today has a population of just 55. “Just seeing peoples’ connection with the place they lived, the pride they took in all of that, and how welcoming they were... Coming from the Southeast of England, that had gone.”
Ewen first heard of Emma from his uncle, who declared one day that a lass from England had arrived on the mailboat on the mailboat. The rest is history; Emma’s three-week trip became a whole summer, and she moved up a year later. “I was welcomed into something really special,” she says.
Ewen grew up in a crofting family on Fair Isle. His grandfather made wooden spinning wheels and his father made straw-backed chairs. Like the rest of the family, Ewen played the fiddle, and it made sense to him to bring the two family traditions together.
The family moved to the Shetland Mainland 16 years ago. The house, which they rebuilt in 2007, has been a labour of love, and Emma jokes that Ewen could happily not leave the bay—aside from making fiddles, there are sheep to tend to, boats to paint, dry-stain dykes to work on. Ewen plays in a few highly respected local folk bands, including Haltadans, who have toured Europe—nevertheless, band practice often happens at Channerwick. Ewen is Shetland through and through, and seems simply at peace here. “I’ve never felt any real need to be anywhere else,” he says. “There’s always been a pull back to Shetland, and home.”
But for Emma, this life has been an active choice: first, the decision to move to Fair Isle, and then to move the family to the Shetland Mainland, where she could be closer to Lerwick, and work, while she and Ewen could still run a family croft. For the 16 years since moving from Fair Isle, she has worked for the Shetland Islands Council in Lerwick, working to combat inequality and social exclusion. While home life revolves around lambs, sea views and homegrown vegetables, she’s professionally aware that not everyone in Shetland is quite so fortunate.
At the same time, she’s also part of the safety net that exists here, where oil money has contributed to some of the best-funded public services in the UK. “It is my job to help make sure that everyone in Shetland can access the brilliant opportunities that we have,” she says. “And my own job is an example of the opportunities here. Shetland has probably higher than full-time employment, so there are a lot of jobs, especially within the council and the NHS. I never thought I’d end up working for a council, but it gives me this immense job satisfaction.”
On a personal level, Emma still has a very clear sense of what makes Shetland different from other places, particularly the corner of England where she’s from. “These things that can seem quite contrived elsewhere—going to the woodland or the food market, going to see the band or the play—here, it’s just living,” she says. “It feels like other parts of the UK are trying to reconnect with something that has been broken, whereas Shetland never lost it.”
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Shetland Museum and Archives
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement
Croft House Museum
Scalloway Museum
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
Lerwick Visit Scotland Information Centre
Clickimin Broch
Scalloway Castle
St Ninian's Isle
Tangwick Haa Museum
Film Actors Perform On Shetland Isle.
Film actors perform unrehearsed drama on Shetland Isle.
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Shetland Wool Week Song
Sound Artist Felicity Ford, inspired by Shetland Wool, performs the song she wrote while attending Shetland's Wool Week, an ode to the Islands and their indigenous sheep...a bit like wool manifesto.
Mousa - one of the Shetland Islands and home to an Iron Age Broch.
Home to the best example of an Iron Age Broch in the world, the island of Mousa is one of Shetland's must sees. Not only is there outstanding archaeology and coastal scenery, but the island is a haven for wildlife. During the summer months hundreds of storm petrels return from the sea at dusk to roost in the walls of the broch - one of Shetland's most spectacular sights and sounds!
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First Cruise Ship visits Shetland 2018
CMV’s Magallan arrriving from Reykjavik, Iceland, as part of a 12-night “land of the Northern Lights” cruise that began in London and will head to Kirkwall. Marking the first Cruise ship visit of 2018 to Shetland