Shetland Islands
Facts
31 properties- Instance of
- archipelago, registration county, lieutenancy area of Scotland, Scottish islands area, historic county of the United Kingdom, shire of Scotland, council area[5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Official website
- www.shetland.gov.uk[26]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 60.357°, -1.261°[23]
- Languages spoken, written or signed
- Shetlandic
- Area
- +1468
- Authority
- Shetland Islands Council[25]
- Carbon footprint
- +31975.2, +31049.37
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 🗺️ 60.425°, -0.725°[43]
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 🗺️ 60.861°, -0.874°[41]
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 🗺️ 59.507°, -1.651°[42]
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 🗺️ 60.134°, -2.117°[44]
- Described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, The New Student's Reference Work, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8
- Different from
- South Shetland Islands
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Shetland Islands
- Highest point
- Ronas Hill[22]
- Historic county
- Shetland Islands
- Language used
- Scots, Shetlandic
- Legislative body
- Shetland Islands Council[14]
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- Located in/on physical feature
- British Isles[24]
- Native label
- Sealtainn, Hjaltland, Shetland
- VIAF cluster ID
- 125426049
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n81097141
- GND ID
- 4054745-0
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aerial view of North Haven, Fair Isle - geograph.org.uk - 17893.jpg ↗
- Australian War Memorial ID
- PL528823
- BBC News topic ID
- cllmrkzw19dt
- BBC Things ID
- 5b6db59c-625d-4d52-bcb8-f602ae725783
- BabelNet ID
- 00071045n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 11947846w
- De Agostini ID
- Shetland,+isole-
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--41135
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- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Calle Larga
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Shetland-Islands-Scotland
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- iles-shetland
- FAST ID
- 1215050
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- UKW3
- FactGrid item ID
- 25th Reserve Division
- Freebase ID
- /m/0753n
- GENUKI ID
- sct/SHI
- GSS code (2011)
- S12000027
- Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
- counties/countyfirst27, councils/councilfirst31
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- illes-shetland
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0062486
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Shetland
- HASC
- GB.SH
- Harper's tag
- shetland, shetland-scotland
- INaturalist place ID
- 30476
- ISO 3166-2 code
- GB-ZET
- IdRef ID
- 027436772
- Interlingual Index ID
- i83760
- KBpedia ID
- ShetlandIslands
- Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
- 11690
- Lex ID
- Shetlandsøerne
- Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
- Shetland
- Mindat locality ID
- 2888
- Museum-digital place ID
- 14918
- MusicBrainz area ID
- ddb39253-06b3-4e3a-b218-21bdc94172b5
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge295716
- NUTS code
- UKM66
- Namuwiki ID
- 셰틀랜드 제도
- National Library of Brazil ID
- 000092411
- National Library of Iceland ID
- 000085369
- National Library of Ireland ID
- vtls001422442
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007552767205171
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3982976
- Peakbagger area ID
- 31100
- Quora topic ID
- Shetland-Islands
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 33909
- Related category
- Category:Shetland-related lists
- SNARC ID
- Bill Clinton
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- geografico/1203597
- Subreddit
- shetland
- Topic's main category
- Category:Shetland
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10045165
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 12790
- Vision of Britain place ID
- 17214
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- cyshuxuu
- Who's on First ID
- 1360698897
- WikiKids ID
- Shetlandeilanden
- Wikishire article ID
- Shetland
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08973830-n
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJht4vd3yQkKdQGBwT9FKd
- YSA ID
- Y105818
- YSO ID
- 105818
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/de7cf0e2-b82d-4c23-8324-5de8685a6ad6
- Yle topic ID
- 18-131192
Contained subdivisions 184
← Historic county 179
← Located in/on physical feature 74
Instance of 4
Belongs to 3
← Indigenous to 3
← Place served by transport hub 3
Described by source 2
Language used 2
Located in this place 2
Named after 2
People born here 2
← Applies to jurisdiction 2
← Category combines topics 2
← Location of formation 2
Authority 1
Capital 1
Category for people born here 1
Country 1
Different from 1
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Flag 1
Highest point 1
Historic county 1
Legislative body 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
Located in/on physical feature 1
Part of 1
Participated in 1
Residents 1
SNARC ID 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital of 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← Different from 1
← Headquarters location 1
← Main subject 1
← Organizer 1
← SNARC ID 1
← Work location 1
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Summary
Shetland Islands is an archipelago[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Shetland Islands include South Shetland Islands[45], an archipelago[46] and Zetland Glacier[47], a glacier[48].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include South Shetland Islands[45], an archipelago[46] and Zetland Glacier[47], a glacier[48].
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evidence “The Scottish Government further says 20 of Scotland’s 32 council areas recorded an overall population decline in the most recent reporting year, with pressures highly visible in areas including Na h-Eileanan Siar, Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway.” thenational.scot · read source
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evidence “The photo was taken off Shetland, UK, as the bird hunted for fish to feed its offspring.” newscientist.com · read source