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Shetland

Shetland
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About Shetland

Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway, marking the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about 50 miles to the northeast of Orkney, 110 mi (170 km) from mainland Scotland, and 140 mi (220 km) west of Norway.

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In April 2012, a UK fisherman called Andrew Leeper was fishing near Shetland and he found a message in a bottle, and it was a note that had been dropped at sea in 1890.

from No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders, 2018-09-21 at 00:03:08 · read transcript

Other times Shetland came up

  1. There's some great walking words, plutch to flap the feet while walking like a seabird from Shetland. prol a short enjoyable walk that's from kent proper stroll i should think it stands for shawlv to saunter with extreme laziness from east anglia to spandle to leave wet footprints on a floor another kentish down a wall so do you.

    No Such Thing As The Three Little Pigs of Wall Street, 2023-04-20 · listen

  2. The strongest gust ever recorded in the UK was at Kairngorm Summit in 1986, which is a mountain in the highlands. In Scotland, yeah. Which was 173 miles an hour. I think that's the strongest any gusts, any, individual gust has been recorded. I think in general, it's normally Shetland that is the windiest on average, I believe. I know, I know. You'd be lifted off into the air when you'd be lifted off in the air. Oh, yeah.

    Little Fish: Yum Yum, Plum Plum, 2025-11-09 · listen

  3. In the 1701, I think it was a census or there was certainly a report in 1701. They said there were still a few monoglot Norse speakers who couldn't speak any other language apart from Norse. That is so cool. The thing is like Shetland was belonging to the Norse people for a long time and they pawned it to Scotland in the 15th century or something like that. Theoretically they could buy it back if they wanted to. Wow.

    28: No Such Thing As A Man-Eating Clam, 2014-09-26 · listen

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