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unusual facts about Shetland Islands



Arcus cloud

Coastal roll clouds have been seen in many places, including California, the English Channel, Shetland Islands, the North Sea coast, and costal regions of Australia.

Barbertonite

Read and Dixon (et al. 1933) stated that the mineral that was found in Cunningsburgh, Shetland Islands was stichtite but it is now thought to be barbertonite because of the very similar indices of the minerals (Frondel et al. 1941).

Pier House Museum

The Pier House Museum is a museum in Symbister, Whalsay, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.

String Sisters

In January 1998 at the world-renowned Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, Scotland, Shetland fiddler Catriona MacDonald was commissioned to assemble the world's leading female fiddlers.

William Mudge

These observations were carried out by Biot, with the assistance of Mudge and of his son Richard Zachariah Mudge, at Leith Fort on the River Forth, and Biot assisted Mudge in extending the arc to Uist in the Shetland Islands.

William Whetstone

In June he was ordered to escort a convoy of nineteen ships of the Muscovy Company as far as the Shetland Islands.


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4 Deserts

In 2010, the race was held on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland islands and home to many national scientific bases; Deception Island, which is the caldera of a live volcano, and a former whaling station; and Dorian Bay on the Antarctic mainland.

Burel

Burel Hill, ice-free hill at Desolation Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Cabut

Cabut Cove, a 1.08 km wide cove indenting for 1 km the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island

Deception Island is the name of a real island, found among the South Shetland Islands.

Napier Peak

The feature is named after Captain William Napier, Master of the schooner Venus, from New York, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

Origins of Falkland Islanders

Scots were particularly common in Darwin, many of them coming from the Orkney and Shetland Islands, which have a similar climate to these areas.

Rhoemetalces

Remetalk Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, named for Rhoemetalces III

Telefon

Telefon Rocks, group of rocks in King George Island, the South Shetland Islands

Zeno brothers

An alternate interpretation finds that in transcribing the letters the Zen brothers' descendant mistook a reference to "Estlanda" for "Islanda" or Iceland, thus accounting for both the presence of those superfluous islands off Iceland and the mysterious absence of an equal number of islands off of the Shetland Islands.