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Shetland is comprised of over 100 individual islands (although only 15 are inhabited) located in the northern sector of the North Sea, at its crossroads with the Atlantic Ocean.

Location

Located on the latitude of 60 degrees north, the Islands are an almost equal distance (around 180 miles) to the north of the Scottish Mainland and west of the Norwegian coastline and only a 100 or so miles south of the Faroe Islands.

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Landscape

Dore Holm

Shetland has a rugged beauty all of its own. Perhaps the most common observation from the first time visitor relates to our almost total lack of trees, a feature which sets the landscape apart from many of our other near neighbours, while the furthest you can get from the sea on the islands is only three miles.

Another surprise for many is, that although Shetland is hilly, there are no mountains. Our highest hill, Ronas Hill, located at the north of the Shetland mainland is 450m high.

People

The islands total population numbers around 22,000 inhabitants, 7500 of whom live in the capital, Lerwick.

Shetland is an industrious and thriving community where fishing, fish farming, the oil industry, tourism and agriculture (sheep out-number people by a ratio of almost 10-1) all play a cruical role in the local economy.

And then of course there's music...

Visit Shetland

You can learn more about the islands and what they have to offer visitors at VisitShetland.com