Shetland, or the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago around 170km north of the Scottish mainland. It is made up of about 300 islands and skerries (tiny rocky islets), with 16 of them inhabited.

Map locating the Shetland Islands which are north of Scotland. The map also locates the towns of Lerwick, Scalloway, and East Voe on the mainland, along with Uradale Farm. The town of Symbister on ...

In good weather it is a ten-minute boat trip from the Shetland mainland, and the island has a coastline spanning around 6.5 miles. Mr Rowland, a retired solicitor and his Polish wife have decided ...

A significant portion of the Shetland Islands is now available for purchase. Located about 110 miles from mainland Scotland, floating in the North Sea between the Faroe Islands and Norway ...

This marks a considerable difference from the mainland, which has seen comparative ... as per data from the Shetland Islands Council. And, as the UK’s most northerly inhabited place, Unst ...

In good weather, it is a ten-minute boat trip from the Shetland mainland, and the island has a coastline spanning around 6.5 miles. Mr Rowland, a retired solicitor, and his Polish wife have ...

Communications to Shetland have been severely disrupted after a subsea cable was damaged. Police have declared a major incident after the south subsea cable between the islands and the mainland ...

Despite the story largely taking place on the Shetland Islands, some of the filming is done on the Scottish mainland. The exterior shots tend to be filmed on the Shetland islands. But some ...

Meanwhile the new 260km HVDC subsea cable, which runs from Kergord in Shetland to Noss Head, near Wick on the Scottish mainland, means the islands will be connected to the GB electricity grid ...

A damaged subsea cable has cut off communication to Shetland completely. Police have said they are working to fix the complete outage on the island, affecting its connection to the mainland ...