* Noss Hill: Shetland Islands ()

* Skaw: Unst, Shetland Islands ()

* Scousburgh, Shetland Islands ()

South Havra () is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland.

Snow Island or Isla Nevada () is a completely ice-covered island, in size, lying southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Gibbs Island () southwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Clarence Island () is long and the easternmost of the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory.

Admiralty Bay () is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island ( Antarctica ) for in the South Shetland Islands.

Smith Island () is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory.

Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.

** Shetland fiddling, which includes trowie tunes said to come from peerie folk.

Fair Isle ( from Old Norse Frjóey ; Scottish Gaelic Fara ) is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands.

Stuart Hill claims that independence comes from an arrangement struck in 1468 between King Christian I of Denmark / Norway and Scotland's James III, whereby Christian pawned the Shetland Islands to James in order to raise money for his daughter's dowry.

Sources from the 17th and 18th centuries speak of Norn ( sometimes identified as " Norse ", " Norwegian " or " Danish ") as being in a state of decline and generally indicate that the language remained stronger in Shetland than in Orkney.

Another from 1701 indicates that there were still a few monoglot " Norse " speakers who were capable of speaking " no other thing ", and notes that there were more speakers of the language in Shetland than in Orkney.

The isolated islands of Foula and Unst are variously claimed as the last refuges of the language in Shetland, where there were people " who could repeat sentences in Norn, probably passages from folk songs or poems, as late as 1893.

His oikoumenè spanned 180 degrees of longitude from the Blessed Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of China, and about 80 degrees of latitude from Shetland to anti-Meroe ( east coast of Africa ); Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe, and an erroneous extension of China southward suggests his sources did not reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

" Shetland knives " are stone tools that date from this period made from felsite from Northmavine.

Rognvald Eysteinsson received Orkney and Shetland from Harald as an earldom as reparation for the death of his son in battle in Scotland, and then passed the earldom on to his brother Sigurd the Mighty.

James III of Scotland | James III and Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland | Margaret, whose betrothal led to Shetland passing from Norway to Scotland

The trade with the North German towns lasted until the 1707 Act of Union when high salt duties prohibited the German merchants from trading with Shetland.

However, some local merchant-lairds took up where the German merchants had left off, and fitted out their own ships to export fish from Shetland to the Continent.

Shetland is also served by a domestic connection from Lerwick to Aberdeen on mainland Scotland.

Inter-Island flights are available from the Shetland Mainland to most of the inhabited islands including those from Tingwall Airport west of Lerwick, operated by Directflight Ltd., in partnership with Shetland Islands Council.

Roy Grönneberg, who founded the local chapter of the Scottish National Party in 1966, designed the flag of Shetland in cooperation with Bill Adams to mark the 500 year anniversary of the transfer of the islands from Norway to Scotland.

Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.

Orkney Ferries provides services within the Orkney Isles ; and NorthLink Ferries provides services from the Scottish mainland to Orkney and Shetland, mainly from Aberdeen although other ports are also used.

Cross-bedding in a fluviatile sandstone, Old Red Sandstone | Middle Old Red Sandstone ( Devonian ) on Bressay, Shetland Islands

:" Shetlandic language " redirects here ; not to be confused with Shetland Scots.

After Orkney and Shetland were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468 / 69 it was gradually replaced by Scots.

Orkney and Shetland were pledged to James III in 1468 and 1469 respectively, and it is with these pledges that the replacement of Norn with Scots is most associated.

Despite this, the process by which Scots overtook Norn as the primary spoken language on the islands was not a swift one, and most natives of Orkney and Shetland likely spoke Norn as a first language until the late 16th and early-to-mid 17th centuries respectively.

His death halted any further Norwegian expansion in Scotland and following this ill-fated expedition, the Hebrides and Mann were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth, although the Scots recognised continuing Norwegian sovereignty over Orkney and Shetland.

After the islands were transferred to Scotland, thousands of Scots families emigrated to Shetland in the 16th and 17th centuries but studies of the genetic makeup of the islands ' population indicate that Shetlanders are just under half Scandinavian in origin.

* Insular Scots – Orkney and Shetland.

In 1266 he gave up the Hebrides and the Isle of Man to Scotland, in return for a large sum of silver and a yearly payment, under the Treaty of Perth, by which the Scots at the same time recognised Norwegian rule over Shetland and the Orkney Islands.

Another example is the influence of the now extinct North Germanic Norn language on the Scots dialects of the Shetland and Orkney islands.

The Treaty of Perth transferred the Outer Hebrides and Isle of Man to Scots law while Norse law and rule still applied for Shetland and Orkney.

Udal law generally holds sway in Shetland and Orkney, along with Scots law.

However, the region is visited by more than 40, 000 tourists annually, the most popular destinations being the Antarctic Peninsula area ( especially the South Shetland Islands ) and South Georgia Island.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

In Shetland they sometimes cluster on each side of narrow stretches of water: the broch of Mousa, for instance, is directly opposite another at Burraland in Sandwick.

Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.

An example is to be found on the uninhabited island of Vementry on the north side of the West Mainland, where it appears that the cairn may have originally been circular and its distinctive heel shape added as a secondary development, a process repeated elsewhere in Shetland.

The island is administratively part of Shetland and lies south-west of Sumburgh Head on the Mainland of Shetland and north-east of North Ronaldsay, Orkney.

However, by then the Vikings were almost certainly well established in Orkney and Shetland, and it is probable that many other non-recorded raids occurred before this.

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

* The Crown Dependency of Forvik is an island in Shetland, currently recognized as part of UK.

Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles ( Orkney and Shetland ) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland.

Even less is known about " Caithness Norn " than about Orkney and Shetland Norn.

It is found in Shetland, some western crofts and more rarely Central Scotland.

( An exception is the " auld reel " of Shetland which tends to irregular structure and may have been influenced by the Norwegian halling.

Comprising the Shetland constituency of the Scottish Parliament, Shetland is also one of the 32 council areas of Scotland ; the islands ' administrative centre and only burgh is Lerwick.

In early Irish literature, Shetland is referred to as Inse Catt —" the Isles of Cats ", which may have been the pre-Norse inhabitants ' name for the islands.