The raucous celebration of the new year and the islands’ Nordic heritage culminates in the ritual burning of a longship – and much drinking ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the northwest of Mainland, ...

Lerwick in the Shetland Islands has been named among the UK's most relaxing towns just don't expect endless sunshine. A pretty little town on an island off Scotland has been named one of Britain’s ...

The streets of a tiny Scottish town have once again been filled with fire and smoke as hundreds take part in a historic Viking festival. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, is held on the ...

URADALE, Shetland Islands — The sheep came spilling over the hillside, emerging through the low mist where the green earth touched the gray sky, running down into the fields below. They were ready for ...

There’s a moment in the latest season of the BBC crime drama “Shetland” when the camera pans slowly over the cliffs of Eshaness in the north of the island of Mainland, Shetland. Volcanic cliffs drop ...

Marisa Cashill got into her motorhome and headed for the Shetland Islands, later realising that seven days was nowhere near enough to explore the many treasures of this wonderful land. Did you know ...

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