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25 stories pinned across Shetland. Tap a marker to read it.
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Fair Isle
Fair Isle — knitting, birds, and El Gran Griffón
Multiple eras
🧶 Knitting & textiles🐦 Wildlife⛵ Boats & sailing
Sumburgh Head
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
1820s
⛵ Boats & sailing🐦 Wildlife heritage-seed
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Sumburgh Head
Jarlshof — 4,000 years in one place
Multiple eras
🧙 Folklore🚜 Crofting⛪ Faith & kirk
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Garth's Ness, Quendale
The Braer disaster
1993
⛵ Boats & sailing🐦 Wildlife heritage-seed
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Old Scatness
Old Scatness Broch
Iron Age
🧙 Folklore heritage-seed
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St Ninian's Isle
The St Ninian's Isle Treasure
1958
⛪ Faith & kirk🧙 Folklore🎓 School days
Mousa
Mousa Broch
Iron Age
🧙 Folklore⛵ Boats & sailing heritage-seed
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Hoswick
The Hoswick Whale Case, 1888
Pre-1900
whaling🚜 Crofting🏪 Trade & shops
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Hamnavoe
Hamnavoe and the herring boom
Pre-war
🎣 Fishing🏪 Trade & shops heritage-seed
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Foula
Foula — Shetland's outpost
Multiple eras
💬 Spik & dialect🚜 Crofting🧙 Folklore
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Scalloway
The Shetland Bus
WWII
🪖 Wartime⛵ Boats & sailing heritage-seed
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Lerwick
Da Lodberries — Lerwick's sea-merchants
17th–19th century
🏪 Trade & shops⛵ Boats & sailing heritage-seed
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Lerwick
Up Helly Aa — the galley burns
Pre-war / Recent
🔥 Up Helly Aa🎻 Music & dance🧙 Folklore
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Lerwick
Sir Robert Stout, Premier of New Zealand
Pre-1900
🎓 School days👪 Family heritage-seed
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Lerwick (Islesburgh)
Tom Anderson and the Shetland fiddle
20th century
🎻 Music & dance💬 Spik & dialect heritage-seed
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Tingwall
The Althing at Lawting Holm
Norse
🧙 Folklore⛪ Faith & kirk heritage-seed
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Staneydale
Staneydale "Temple"
Neolithic
🧙 Folklore⛪ Faith & kirk heritage-seed
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Lunna
Lunna Kirk
17th c. / WWII
⛪ Faith & kirk🪖 Wartime heritage-seed
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Sullom Voe
Sullom Voe and the oil years
1970s
🏪 Trade & shops👪 Family heritage-seed
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Eshaness
Eshaness Lighthouse
1929
⛵ Boats & sailing heritage-seed
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Ronas Voe
The whaling stations of Ronas Voe
Pre-war
whaling🏪 Trade & shops heritage-seed
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Fethaland
Fethaland — the haaf at the top of the world
Pre-1900
🎣 Fishing⛵ Boats & sailing🚜 Crofting
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Gloup
The Gloup Disaster, 20 July 1881
Pre-1900
🎣 Fishing⛵ Boats & sailing👪 Family
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Haroldswick
Skidbladner — a Norse longship in Unst
Norse / Recent
⛵ Boats & sailing🧙 Folklore heritage-seed