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To many people on the UK mainland and beyond, the Shetland Isles is a peripheral region somewhere up at the top of the map of Great Britain or, often as not, omitted altogether. In fact Shetland is located in the North Atlantic, strategically placed in relation to fertile fishing grounds and major oil reserves.
It consists of a group of 100 islands, some 567 square miles in area with approximately 900 miles of coastline and a population of 23,000. It is as close to Norway as it is to Aberdeen. |
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