The South Mainland of the

Shetland Islands Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...

is the southern

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

Mainland Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity" The term is often politically, economically and/or dem ...

island. It lies south of Hellister (60° 14′N). The greater southern part of the peninsula belongs to the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Dunrossness Dunrossness, (Old Norse: ''Dynrastarnes'' meaning "headland of the loud tide-race", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost) is the southernmost parish of Shetland, Scotland. Historically the name Dunrossness has usually referred to the area o ...

. The rest belongs to the parishes of

Lerwick Lerwick (; non, Leirvik; nrn, 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 in 2010. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland ...

and Tingwall (small part of the latter). St Ninian's Isle is a

tidal island A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of ...

off its west coast.

Geography

Points of interest include: *

Scalloway Scalloway ( non, Skálavágr, "bay with the large house(s)") is the largest settlement on the west coast of the Mainland, the largest island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The village had a population of roughly 900, at the 2011 census. N ...

Veensgarth Veensgarth ( non, Vikingsgarðr, Viking farm, or ''Vingarðr'', Meadow Farm), is a village in the Tingwall valley west of Lerwick on Mainland Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not includ ...

Gulberwick Gulberwick is a village on Mainland, southwest of Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, which contains approximately 200 houses. In recent years the number of houses in the area has increased due to its nearness to Shetland's capital and biggest town, Le ...

Quarff Quarff is a small village on Mainland in the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is located on the main A970 road, south of Shetland's only town, Lerwick. The village is spread along a classic glacial valley that runs east–west across the island ...

Cunningsburgh Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh ( non, Konungsborgr meaning "King's castle"), is a hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland, Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The hamlet is on the coast, nine miles south south w ...

* Sandwick *

Hoswick Hoswick is a settlement in Sandwick in the south mainland of Shetland, Scotland, on the eastern part of the Dunrossness civil parish. It is separated from the rest of Sandwick by the Hoswick Burn and from Channerwick in the south by the hill o ...

Bigton Bigton is a small settlement on South Mainland, Shetland, UK. Bigton is within the civil parish of Dunrossness. Bigton lies on the Atlantic coast of the island overlooking St Ninian's Isle and within view is the island of Burra, further to t ...

Scousburgh Scousburgh is a small community in the parish of Dunrossness, in the South Mainland Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territo ...

Fitful Head Fitful Head is a headland at the southwest corner of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, some northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation served by a restricte ...

Sumburgh Head Sumburgh Head is a headland located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. The head consists of a 100 m high rocky spur and topped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. In the Old Norse language, Sumburgh Head was cal ...

References

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