*** Zony or Zetland, a zebra / pony cross (" zony " is a generic term ; " zetland " is specifically a hybrid of the Shetland pony breed with a zebra )

Zetland is an archaic spelling of Shetland.

* Zetland, an archaic spelling of Shetland

However, wishing to minimise the negative impacts of the industry, the Shetland Islands Council ( SIC ), with power granted to it by the UK Parliament in the 1974 Zetland County Council Act ( ZCC Act ), were able to contain all pipeline terminal facilities at the Sullom Voe site, now operated by BP on behalf of a consortium of companies operating in the North Sea and North Atlantic.

: Zetland ( Shetland )

# Zetland ( Shetland )

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland in 1831, and in 1838, on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Victoria, he was created Earl of Zetland ( i. e. Shetland ) for having provided financial assistance to the new Queen's parents, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, in the years preceding her accession.

They located the second broadcast on board an old ferry from the Shetland Islands called the Earl of Zetland which was temporarily moored in Sovereign Harbour.

Zetland is an archaic spelling of Shetland.

Like the Shetland cairn the Hebridean group appear relatively late in the Neolithic.

* South Shetland Islands, a group of islands in the South Atlantic, a dependency of the Falkland Islands

* Sewing-Machine Needles, a group of three prominent rock needles near Rancho Point, Deception Island, Shetland Islands

The group also contains the most northerly land of the United Kingdom and Shetland at Out Stack near Muckle Flugga, and its most northerly settlement Skaw on Unst.

The Out Skerries are an archipelago in Shetland, Scotland, lying to the east of the main Shetland Island group.

* ZE postcode area, a group of postcode districts covering the Shetland Islands in Scotland

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of.

They are one survivor of a type of sheep formerly found across the islands of Orkney and Shetland ( the other is the Shetland ), belonging to the Northern European short-tailed sheep group of breeds.

Conspiring with the Earl of Orkney, Harald Maddadsson, Hallkjell gathered most of his men on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, hence the name of the group.

Bound Skerry is part of the Out Skerries group in the Shetland Islands.

* Enchantress Rocks, a small group of rocks lying off Elephant Point on the south side of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

The Shetland Bus was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Shetland, Scotland, and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the German occupation ended on 8 May 1945.

After the resignation of his friend and former ministerial colleague Nicol Stephen, Scott declared his candidacy for the leadership of the Scottish Liberal Democrats on 7 July 2008 at Lerwick harbour, surrounded by a group of men dressed as Vikings which is a tradition in Shetland called Up Helly Aa where Shetlanders celebrate their Viking heritage.

Housay, also known as West Isle, is one of the three islands that form the Out Skerries island group, the most easterly part of the Shetland Isles.

With Harald Maddadsson, the Earl of Orkney, Hallkjell gathered most of his men on Orkney and Shetland, hence the name of the group.

Seal Islands ( also known as Îles des Phoques, Islas Foca, Islotes Foca and Seal Rocks ) are a group of small islands and rocks lying from northwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands.

There are five extant examples of towers with significantly higher walls: Dun Carloway on Lewis, Dun Telve and Dun Troddan in Glenelg, Mousa in Shetland and Dun Dornaigil in Sutherland, all of whose walls exceed 6. 5 m ( 21 ft ) in height.

It has been found in some Shetland brochs that guard cells in entrance passageways are close to large door-check stones.

On the islands of Orkney and Shetland there are very few cells at ground floor.

Brochs are often built beside the sea ( Carn Liath, Sutherland ); sometimes they are on islands in lochs ( e. g. Clickimin in Shetland ).

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.

These passage graves are usually larger than the Shetland type and are round or have funnel-shaped forecourts, although a few are long cairns-perhaps originally circular but with later tails added.

* 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.

Hunter ( 2000 ) states that in relation to King Bridei I of the Picts in the sixth century: " As for Shetland, Orkney, Skye and the Western Isles, their inhabitants, most of whom appear to have been Pictish in culture and speech at this time, are likely to have regarded Bridei as a fairly distant presence .”

The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.

The large and many holes in lacy knitting makes it extremely elastic ; for example, some Shetland " wedding-ring " shawls are so fine that they may be drawn through a wedding ring.

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.

The modern descendants of the Old West Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian and the extinct Norn language of the Orkney and the Shetland Islands ; the descendants of the Old East Norse dialect are the East Scandinavian languages of Danish and Swedish.

In 43 and 77 AD 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.

Geological evidence shows that at around 6100 BC a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slides hit Shetland, ( as well as the rest of the east coast of Scotland ), and may have created a wave of up to high in the voes where modern populations are highest.

Due to the practice, dating to at least the early Neolithic, of building in stone on virtually treeless islands, Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric eras and there are over 5, 000 archaeological sites all told.

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

Heel-shaped cairns, are a style of chambered cairn unique to Shetland, with a particularly large example on Vementry.

Hunter ( 2000 ) states that in relation to King Bridei I of the Picts in the sixth century AD: " As for Shetland, Orkney, Skye and the Western Isles, their inhabitants, most of whom appear to have been Pictish in culture and speech at this time, are likely to have regarded Bridei as a fairly distant presence .” In 2011 the collective site, " The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland " including Broch of Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof joined the UKs " Tentative List " of World Heritage Sites.