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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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  • 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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    The Shetland Sheepdog, also known as the Sheltie, is a breed of herding dog that originated in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It was formally recognized...
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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 is an archipelago in Scotland. Shetland may also refer to: Shetland animal breeds, including: Shetland cattle Shetland goose Shetland pony Shetland...
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    The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of 3,687 km2 (1,424 sq mi). They lie about 120 kilometres (65 nautical miles)...
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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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  • Orkney and Shetland may refer to: The Scottish island groups of Orkney and Shetland, collectively known as the Northern Isles Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament...
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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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    The flag of Shetland is a white or silver Nordic cross on a blue background. The flag uses the colours of the flag of Scotland, but in the form of the...
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    known as Shetland Space Centre, is a planned spaceport to be located on the Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Islands off...
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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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  • The Shetland goose is a breed of domestic geese that originates in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Like the other breeds of livestock native to the...
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    The American Shetland Pony is an American breed of pony. It derives from the traditional Shetland Pony from the Shetland Isles of Scotland, but as a result...
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    The Shetland Plate, or South Shetland Plate, is a tectonic microplate located off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula that contains the South Shetland Islands...
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    Twatt is a settlement in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. It is located on the Shetland Mainland on a minor road that leads from the A971 road to Clousta...
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  • The Shetland Times is a weekly newspaper in Shetland, published on Fridays and based in Lerwick, the main town in the Shetland Islands. The newspaper is...
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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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    ISBN 978-1-447-27824-5 A Shetland Island series travel tie-in preceding the below released Too Good To Be True. Shetland (2015), ISBN 978-1-509-80979-0 A Shetland Island...
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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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    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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  • The Short Shetland was a British high-speed, long-range, four-engined flying boat built by Short Brothers at Rochester, Kent for use in the Second World...
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    The Shetland is a small, hardy Scottish breed of cattle from the Shetland Islands to the north of mainland Scotland. The cattle are normally black and...
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  • Detective Sergeant Alison 'Tosh' McIntosh in the BBC crime drama series Shetland (2013- present). O'Donnell was born in the early 1980s and grew up in Motherwell...
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  • Wir Shetland was a short-lived pressure group that demanded greater autonomy for Shetland, an archipelago of Scotland. It was launched in October 2015...
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    is the main island of Shetland, Scotland. The island contains Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick, and is the centre of Shetland's ferry and air connections...
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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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    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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    Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first...
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    Douglas Henshall (category People associated with Shetland)
    Primeval (2007–2011) and Detective Inspector Jimmy Pérez in the crime drama Shetland (2013–2022). Henshall's mother was a nurse and his father a salesman. He...
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