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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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    The Shetland pony is a Scottish breed of pony originating in the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland. It may stand up to 107 cm (42 in) at the withers...
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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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    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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  • November 1939, at Shetland Museum Archives, accessed 4 January 2021 Ratter, JD. "Photo #R01263, 13th Nov 1939". Shetland Museum & Archives. Retrieved...
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    some of these Shetland boats are in the Shetland Museum. The Orkney yoles had more beam than their Shetland counterparts. This allowed slightly more...
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    The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: Shetlandsbussene, def. pl.) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between...
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  • North Isles of Shetland, Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a usually resident population of 966. It is the second largest island in Shetland after the Mainland...
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    burning tar through town on sledges, making mischief. According to the Shetland Museum, the catalyst for the establishment of Up Helly Aa was the boredom...
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    Gue (category Shetland musical instruments)
    The gue is an extinct type of two-stringed bowed lyre or zither from the Shetland Isles. The instrument was described in 1809 by Arthur Edmondston in View...
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    September she ran aground and was wrecked off the island of Foula, in the Shetland Islands. In the late 1890s the White Star Line's existing prestige ocean...
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  • Wulver (category Culture of Shetland)
    folklore of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. In modern times, the origin of the wulver has been disputed. The wulver is said by the Shetland folklorist Jessie...
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    Scalloway Museum is a local museum in Scalloway, Shetland. The museum has collections that cover the history of the Shetland Islands as well as historical...
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  • Johnnie Notions (category History of Shetland)
    physician from Shetland, Scotland, who independently developed and administered an inoculation for smallpox to thousands of patients in Shetland during the...
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  • culminated in a body of work exhibited at The Aberdeen Maritime Museum (2001) and the Shetland Museum (2002). The film, Through the Moonpool, was exhibited in...
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    St Ninian's Isle Treasure (category Archaeological sites in Shetland)
    now held in the successor National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, whilst replicas are held by the Shetland Museum. Penannular silver bowls Silver sword...
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    Böd of Gremista (category Historic house museums in Shetland)
    It opened as a museum in 1987, was acquired by the Shetland Museums Service in 1991 and was run as a community museum by the Shetland Amenity Trust. The...
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    Jarlshof (category Museums 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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    Grice (category Fauna of Shetland)
    into whether skull is from extinct Shetland grice". Shetland News. Retrieved 13 August 2020. New Shetland Museum and Archives report of taxidermic reconstruction...
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    3–19. The still-unpublished manuscript of this Sketch is held by the Shetland Museum and Archives. West, Andrew (June 2006). "The Rules for Long S". Babelstone...
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    Fair Isle (technique) (category Culture of Shetland)
    patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands. Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince...
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    Leif Larsen (redirect from Shetland Larsen)
    known as "Shetlands Larsen", was a highly decorated Norwegian sailor. He was arguably the most famous of the men who operated the Shetland bus escape...
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    West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is connected by bridge to East Burra. With an area of 743...
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    Gunnister Man (category Archaeological sites in Shetland)
    These replicas are on display in Tangwick Haa Museum in Northmavine, Shetland. In 2009, Shetland Museum and Archives made full replicas of all of the...
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    The Shetland is a small, wool-producing breed of sheep originating in the Shetland Isles, Scotland, but is now also kept in many other parts of the world...
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    HMY Britannia (category Museum ships in the United Kingdom)
    Museum Shetland Museum Signal Tower Museum Skye Museum of Island Life St Andrews Museum Stewartry Museum Stonehaven Tolbooth Stromness Museum Tain & District...
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    library and museum building was opened on Lower Hillhead by the Lord Lieutenant R. H. W. Bruce. The building was shared with Shetland Museum and Archive...
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  • was a Leverhulme Artist in Residence for Shetland Museum and Archives and one of seven writers from Shetland and Orkney, participating in the University...
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  • Unst (redirect from Unst, Shetland)
    1627); and Haroldswick, location of a boat museum and a heritage centre. There are three island names in Shetland of unknown and possibly pre-Celtic origin:...
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  • E. S. Reid Tait (category Shetland writers)
    of the Shetland Islands. His collection of books, newspaper clippings and other material relating to the islands are held at the Shetland Museum and Archives...
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