- Britain : Shetland
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- Shetland is
surely one of the UK's most distinctive destinations. The main
town, Lerwick, is built around its harbour, sheltered by the
island of Bressay. Behind the busy harbour front, the older part
of the town has narrow flagged streets, a good choice of shops,
and some fine 18th-century buildings complete with 'lodberries',
the private piers which serve as a reminder of the town's origins
as a trading post founded by the Dutch.
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- Beyond Lerwick,
the Shetland landscape unfolds as rounded hills, green slopes
and moors to form the ideal backdrop for Shetland's teeming natural
history. The sea is the lifeline for so many of Shetland's wildlife
sites, like the island of Noss with its awesome cliffs and gannet
colony, or Sumburgh Head, just one of many places where puffin
sightings are all but guaranteed - look out for otters in the
surf as well. Wildlife is also one reason to visit Hermaness
on the most northerly island of Unst; it also hosts one of the
most rewarding of Shetland's many walking routes where a walk
across the moor brings visitors within sight of Muckle Flugga,
the most northerly tip of the UK.
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- Lerwick
Harbour
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- Fort
Charlotte was built in 1653 by the Cromwellian fleet
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- Lerwick
Town Hall
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- St
Ninian's Isle
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- Sumburgh
Head & Lighthouse (1821)
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- Shetland
Crofthouse (c1880)
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- stacked
peat
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- Jarlshof
- the largest & most complex archeological site in the Shetland
Isles
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- excavations
at Jarlshof
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- excavations
at Jarlshof
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- Voe
- a town in Shetland with a distinctive Scandinavian appearance
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- Sullom
Voe Oil Terminal built between 1975 and 1982
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- Welcome
to Yell - the largest of the North Isles
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- The
ferry to Yell
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- Welcome
to Unst - the most northerly island in the British Isles
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- an
old boat is used as a storage shed
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- Crofters
Cottage in Uyeasound
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- Crofters
Cottage in Uyeasound
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