shetland

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1. shetland - Noun

2. Shetland - Proper noun

Meaning

a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands

an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland

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You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. Ann Cleeves

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts! Ann Cleeves

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place. Ann Cleeves

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland. Ann Cleeves

A 25-year-old man has been taken to hospital after falling down cliffs in Shetland. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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