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Introducing Shetland Islands. - 17th Jan 2003

Shetland Islands, also called Zetland or Shetland group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom.

They constitute the Shetland Islands council area and the historic county of Shetland. Among the settlements on Mainland, the largest island, is Scalloway, a fishing port. Lerwick, also on Mainland, is the islands' largest town and commercial and administrative centre.

The Shetland islands together with the Orkney Islands have a combined number of golf courses totalling 4.

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