Sumburgh Head is a headland located at the southern tip of the main island of the Shetland Archipelago, in northern Scotland. The head consists of a 100 m...
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Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Sumburgh Head at the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland. The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson...
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Sumburgh is a small settlement in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Sumburgh is located at the south end of the Mainland on Sumburgh Head. Sumburgh Airport...
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Sumburgh Airport (IATA: LSI, ICAO: EGPB) is the main airport serving Shetland in Scotland. It is located on the southern tip of the mainland, in the parish...
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mainland government to finance them. Sumburgh Airport, the main airport in Shetland, is located close to Sumburgh Head, 40 km (25 mi) south of Lerwick. Loganair...
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Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, across the West Voe of Sumburgh from Sumburgh Head and close to Sumburgh Airport, the Shetland Islands' main airport. Scatness...
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Rock Toward Corsewall Sumburgh Head Rinns of Islay Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Mull of Galloway Tarbat Ness Dunnet Head Barra Head Girdle Ness Lismore Stevenson...
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Royal Air Force Sumburgh or more simply RAF Sumburgh is a former Royal Air Force satellite station that was located on the southern tip of the mainland...
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Her estimated position then was 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of Sumburgh Head, although the initial position given to the coastguards was off by 5...
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An 85 mm Chance Brothers Incandescent Petroleum Vapour Installation, which produced the light for the Sumburgh Head lighthouse until 1976....
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tidal race otherwise known in more modern times as Sumburgh Roost and Da Roost, lying between Sumburgh Head and Fair Isle (grid reference HU405070). Amongst...
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the parish of Dunrossness, Shetland, and is roughly equidistant from Sumburgh Head, some 38 km (24 mi) to the northeast on the Mainland of Shetland and...
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Incandescent Petroleum Vapour Installation which produced the light for the Sumburgh Head lighthouse until 1976. The lamp (made in approx. 1914) burned vaporized...
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Exnaboe, Grutness, Toab, Ness of Burgi, Clumlie Broch, Scatness, Sumburgh Airport, Sumburgh Head, West Voe, the islands of Lady's Holm, Little Holm, Horse Holm...
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and buoyed. The steamer then proceeded to Shetland, landed a cable at Sumburgh Head and proceeded to Orkney. Within 2 days, the whole cable was safely submerged...
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Orkney Noup Cliffs, Orkney The Oa, Argyll and Bute Onziebust, Orkney Sumburgh Head, Shetland Trumland, Orkney Udale Bay, Highland Vane Farm, Perth and...
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returning workers from the Brent oilfield crashed on approach to land at Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands. At 2.5 mi (4.0 km) from the runway the...
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A webcam installed near Sumburgh Head lighthouse, Shetland. The cliffs are home to large numbers of seabirds and the area is an RSPB nature reserve....
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kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation...
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Holm, is one of the Shetland Islands. It lies about 2.3 km west of Sumburgh Head at the south tip of the Mainland, Shetland. In the Norn language, it...
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The West Voe of Sumburgh, (grid reference: HU 395 088), is the most southerly bay on the Shetland Mainland, located between Sumburgh Head, and the point...
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building dates and types. Two lighthouses merit Category A listing: Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is described as "one of Scotland's finest surviving pieces...
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Iceland 920 hPa. Another value reported: 6–7 January 1839, recorded at Sumburgh Head, Shetland during the Night of the big wind storm 27.25 inches of mercury...
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NF093998 Sule Skerry and Sule Stack Orkney Islands UK9002181 HX622244 Sumburgh Head Shetland Islands UK9002511 HU410091 Switha Orkney Islands UK9002891...
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William Chance who had started the family business in 1771. James became head of Chance Brothers until his retirement in 1889, when the company became...
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uk/Lighthouse.aspx?id=849 https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Sumburgh-Head/ http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB14100 https://www...
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In February/ March 2018, she spent a month as writer in residence at Sumburgh Head Lighthouse on the Shetland mainland. She teaches an eight-week evening...
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Scatness, part of Virkie. Jarlshof Old Scatness Pool of Virkie Sumburgh Airport Sumburgh Head Virkie Marina Ness Boating Club "Old Scatness, Virkie – Monuments...
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Jarlshof (section Old House of Sumburgh)
best-known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland. It lies in Sumburgh, Mainland, Shetland and has been described as "one of the most remarkable...
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Sinclair is said to have been blind in one eye, the result of leaping from Sumburgh Head to escape a band of marauders from the Isle of Lewis. A version of the...
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