It takes 12 hours to get there from the mainland on a ferry ... more than 7% of the islands' population. The group collects examples of maps which place Shetland in weird and wonderful locations ...

Jarlshof is an archaeological site on the Shetland Islands, which was inhabited from Neolithic times ... [+] to the Middle Ages. The islands are connected by a network of ferries, and regular ...

Normally, Iain preferred the 14-hour overnight ferry from ... by the islands' Member of the Scottish Parliament banned public bodies from producing maps that depict Shetland, for reasons of ...

The Shetland Islands are a part of Scotland. They are surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, so to get there from the Scottish mainland you need to take a plane, or a ferry.