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• Orkney
  [[File:Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654 - ORCADVM ET SCHETLANDIÆ - Orkney and Shetland.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Blaeu's 1654 map]] ...tp://www.indo-european.nl/%5Cindex2.html ''Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch''. Retrieved 3 July 2009.]</ref><ref name=jaroo>[http://www.orkne
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• Yell
  |county=Shetland |map=Shetland Yell locator.svg
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• Aberdeen
  ...her=Aberdeen University Press}}</ref><ref name="fraser">{{cite book |first=W. Hamish|last=Fraser|title=Aberdeen, 1800 to 2000: A New History |year=2000 ...largest in the north of Scotland and as a ferry route to [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]. Established in 1136, it has been referred to as the oldest business in B
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• Stromness
  | constituency= Orkney and Shetland ...ing ships from [[Scrabster]] ([[Caithness]]), from [[Aberdeen]] and from [[Shetland]], enjoying a sheltered harbour. Ferries also run to [[Hoy]] (barely a mil
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• United Kingdom
  ...le the Shetland Islands reach to nearly 61° N, and between longitudes 8° W to 2° E. The Royal Greenwich Observatory in [[Kent]] is the defining poin ...tless islands, islets, rocks and shoals. The greatest island groups are [[Shetland]], [[Orkney]] and the [[Hebrides]], to the north and west of the mainland o
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• Great Britain
  ...from the surrounding archipelagoes, namely [[Anglesey]], [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]. ...s; the [[Hebrides]], the [[Isles of Scilly]], [[Orkney]] and further off [[Shetland]].
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• Mainland, Orkney
  The eastern part of the Mainland is shaped like the letter "W", the easternmost peninsula being known as [[Deerness]]. To the south, caus ...an Lake existed on the edges of these eroding mountains, stretching from [[Shetland]] to the southern [[Moray Firth]].<ref>McKirdy, Alan Gordon, John & Crofts,
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• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  ...miles east-southeast of the Falkland Islands, at 54°–55°S, 36°–38°W. It comprises South Georgia itself (by far the largest island in the territ South Georgia lies at 54°15′S 36°45′W and has an area of 1,362 square miles. It is mountainous and largely barren
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• Scotland
  ...spread out from the west coast and the Northern Isles of [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]. {{main|Orkney}} {{main|Shetland}}
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• North Sea
  ...uthern limit, west of which is the [[English Channel]]. To the north of [[Shetland]], the sea opens out into the Atlantic Ocean and that part of it known as t |first=Duane W.
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• Diocese of Sodor and Man
  ...contrast to the ''Norðreyjar'', the "northern isles" of [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]. The Isle of Man was included in with these southern isles. This diocese *Sodor is a fictional island in the [[Irish Sea]] created by the Rev W Awdry as the setting for The Railway Series books (affectionately known as
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• Highlands
  ...h by cutting off the north-eastern part of [[Caithness]], [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]] from the more Gaelic Highlands and Hebrides.<ref>See maps at [http://lady ...tor: Andy Burnham}}</ref> [[Cryne Corse Mounth]] and [[Cairnamounth]].<ref>W. Douglas Simpson, "The Early Castles of Mar", Proceedings of the Society, 1
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• Scotia Sea
  ...1:41 a.m. local time (0341 GMT). The exact location was 61.011°S, 34.375°W at a depth of 6 miles with a USGS event ID of "usrqal".<ref>[http://earthqu ...ands and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea as well as the remote [[South Shetland Islands]] near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano Bouve
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• Fidra
  ...ion of Scotland by Lewis, Samuel (1846)}}</ref> or " Fetheray".<ref>Skene, W. F. (November 1862) "Of the early Frisian Settlements in Scotland". Antiqua ...e shape of Fidra. (This claim is also made about the island of [[Unst]] in Shetland.) He also mentioned Fidra in his novel ''Catriona''.<ref name=ScotGaz>{{cit
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• Antarctic Peninsula
  [[Hope Bay]], at 63° 23' S 57° W, is near to the northernmost extremity of the peninsula, which is Prime Hea ...ock outcrops within Alexander, James Ross, King George, Seymour, and South Shetland islands has yielded a record of the changes in terrestrial vegetation that
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• South Orkney Islands
  ...es about 60°30' to 60°83'&nbsp;S, and longitudes 44°25' to 46°25'&nbsp;W in the Southern Ocean. ..., along with [[South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands]], the [[South Shetland Islands]] and Bouvet Island. All these islands lie in the cold seas below t
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• Peggotty Bluff
  ...aakon Bay]] on the wild south coast of [[South Georgia]] at 54°9'S 37°17'W. ...the crushing ice, had managed to reach [[Elephant Island]] in the [[South Shetland Islands]]. Shackleton and a small party set out from the island in a small
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• Gigha
  ...Antiquaries of Scotland. Retrieved 18 March 2007. The Scottish antiquarian W.F. Skene originally identified this battle site as being in west [[Knapdale ...es; for John Langlife-son came to the King, while he was sailing west from Shetland, and told him the news that John King of the Hebrides, breaking his faith,
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• Zennor Head
  ...n the [[United Kingdom]] that begins with the letter "Z" (at least since [[Shetland]] ceased to be known as ''Zetland''). It gets its name from the village of ...n the north-, seaward-side of the headland.<ref>Sparrius, L. B., James, P. W., & Allen, M. A. (2005). The sorediate variety of Sclerophytomyces circumsc
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• Mousa Broch
  {{county|Shetland}} '''Mousa Broch''' stands on the island of [[Mousa]] in [[Shetland]], and is the finest preserved example of a broch or round tower in the [[B
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