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Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, ... Roy Grönneberg, who founded the local chapter of the Scottish National Party in 1966, ...
The island's name is a corruption of the Norse hafgröney, [1] gröney meaning "green island", and "ha(a)f" being an old word (still in some use in Shetland), meaning deep open water, especially that used for fishing.
Raven Black is a 2006 novel by Ann Cleeves that won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. [1] Raven Black is the first in the "Shetland" mysteries, a series of eight novels by Cleeves, composed of two quartets, all set in Shetland.
This is a list of Shetland islands in Scotland. The Shetland archipelago is located 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of mainland Scotland and the capital Lerwick is almost equidistant from Bergen in Norway and Aberdeen in Scotland. [1] The Shetland archipelago comprises about 300 islands and skerries, of which 16 are inhabited.
The preserved ruins of a wheelhouse and broch at Jarlshof, described as "one of the most remarkable archaeological sites ever excavated in the British Isles". [1]Due to building in stone on virtually treeless islands—a practice dating to at least the early Neolithic Period—Shetland is extremely rich in physical remains of the prehistoric era, and there are over 5,000 archaeological sites. [2]
Hank Greenberg, US, baseball HOF first baseman of the Detroit Tigers; general manager for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, also part-time owner of the Indians. [24] Stephen Greenberg, US, deputy commissioner of baseball under Bart Giamatti and chief baseball officer later on. Jay Horwitz (born 1945), US, New York Mets executive
In 2007 a "Shetland Flag Day" was introduced by the council, who hope the day will be used to "celebrate all things Shetland". [4] After almost forty years of unofficial use, the flag was formally granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, [1] the heraldic authority of Scotland, on 1 February 2005, [5] in time for the Island Games in July 2005 in ...
Brae House, an early 1800s Shetland merchant's house and a B-rated building, is located in Delting. [ 3 ] Sullom Voe, the location of the Sullom Voe oil terminal and Shetland Gas Plant is an inlet of the North Sea between the parishes of Delting and Northmavine .