Shetland Islands

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1. Shetland Islands - Noun

2. Shetland Islands - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Operated by Directflight Ltd. in partnership with Shetland Islands Council, it is devoted to inter-island flights from the Shetland Mainland to most of the inhabited islands. Source: Internet

Shetland Islands Council state there are 15 inhabited islands, and count East and West Burra, which are joined by a bridge, as a single unit. Source: Internet

The Orkney and Shetland Islands and the Northeast of Scotland are also covered by the warning with "delays to road, rail, air and ferry transport expected, particularly for high-sided vehicles on exposed routes and bridges". Source: Internet

Shetland Islands Council (2010) p. 10 Only 16 of about 100 islands are inhabited. Source: Internet

Their destination was a small base in the Shetland Islands. Source: Internet

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