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    146978219079593°W / 60.15378194792897; -1.146978219079593 Shetland Library is the public library service of Shetland, with its main branch based in Lerwick. Membership...
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  • Shetland is a Scottish crime drama television series produced by ITV Studios for BBC Scotland. First broadcast on BBC One on 10 March 2013, it is originally...
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    Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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    The Shetland Museum and Archives is a museum in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. The new Shetland Museum at Hay's Dock was officially opened on 31 May 2007...
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    Lerwick (redirect from Lerwick, Shetland)
    Leirvik; Norn: Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents...
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  • Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists)...
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    rights to Cleeves' Jimmy Perez novels for the BBC, which turned them into Shetland. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. In 2006 she...
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    The Shetland Islands Council (Shetland Insular Scots: Shitlin Islant' Cooncil; Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Shealtainn) is the local authority for the Shetland...
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    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...
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    with Shetland Library. J.K. Rowling paid a surprise trip to the library book group in 2016. "Orkney Archive - get dusty: History". Orkney Library (1816)...
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  • The History of Shetland concerns the subarctic archipelago of Shetland in Scotland. The early history of the islands is dominated by the influence of...
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  • 2019-05-20. American Library Association - list of (mostly deep) links to articles about deep linking Discussion of the Shetland Times vs Shetland News case, 1996...
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    Christine De Luca (category People from Shetland)
    1980. De Luca's first three poetry collections were published by the Shetland Library. Her first collection, Voes and Sounds was published in 1994 and her...
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    influenced by the surrounding seas. There are two main island groups: Shetland and Orkney. There are a total of 36 inhabited islands, with the fertile...
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    Jakob Jakobsen (category People associated with Shetland)
    Shetland, 1936 London/Copenhagen; reprinted 1993 Shetland Library ​ (1928–1932) [1921]. An etymological dictionary of the Norn language in Shetland (2...
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  • war : the Abernethy brothers and the Special Brigade in World War One. Shetland Library. Lerwick. ISBN 978-0-905924-61-8. OCLC 1084302095.{{cite book}}: CS1...
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    The island groups of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are all currently regions of Scotland. Their constitutional status has periodically been discussed...
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    Fort Charlotte in the centre of Lerwick, Shetland, is an artillery fort, roughly five sided, with bastions on each of three landward corners, and half-bastions...
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    Balta (Scots: Balta; Old Norse: "Baltey") is an uninhabited island in Shetland, Scotland. Balta lies off the east coast of Unst and Balta Sound. It has...
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  • Stella Sutherland (category Shetland poets)
    2015) was one of the Shetland writers of the later 20th and early 21st century. Best known for poetry in both English and Shetland dialect, she also contributed...
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    Dialect and Place Names of Shetland (David Nutt, London) Stewart, John (1987) Shetland Collection of Place-names (Shetland Library and Museum, Lerwick) St...
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  • oscars.org. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2019. The Shetland Experience at IMDb Watch The Shetland Experience at BP Video Library v t e v t e v t e...
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    traditionally pronounced Waas, is a settlement on the south side of West Mainland, Shetland Islands in Scotland. The settlement is at the head of Vaila Sound and sheltered...
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  • Hawick Library Innerleithen Library Contact Centre Jedburgh Library Kelso Library Melrose Library Peebles Library Selkirk Library Shetland Library Alloway...
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    Selkie (category Culture of Shetland)
    conflation between the selkie and finfolk. This confounding only existed in Shetland, claimed Dennison, and that in Orkney the selkie are distinguished from...
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  • Lollie Graham (category People from Shetland)
    (1924–2008) was an author and poet from Scotland. Born in Stromfirth, Shetland, in 1924. The Graham family moved to one of the new croft holdings at Veensgarth...
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    but is now considered incorrect. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands...
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    Scalloway (category Villages in Mainland, Shetland)
    and Library, including railings and gatepiers (LB47295)". Retrieved 9 September 2024. SCALLOWAY Howarth, David (1998). The Shetland Bus. The Shetland Times...
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  • Other Side of Midnight 1977 (50th) 0 1 The Rescuers 1977 (50th) 0 1 The Shetland Experience 1977 (50th) 0 1 Union Maids 1977 (50th) 0 1 The Deer Hunter...
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    Jarlshof (category Historic Scotland properties in Shetland)
    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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