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Shetland Scenes
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On a remote island in the Shetland archipelago at 60° North. Possibly Britain's most Northerly Bluesky account?! (© All photographs)
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Not Shetland but Orkney, from Scapa Pier looking towards Hoy and Lyness, once the home of the Royal Navy Admiralty fleet.
Seascape, blue shows through a cloudy sky with sun backlighting the clouds to the left.
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Baltasound, Unst from the top of Valla Field. If you ignore the 30+ mph wind, it's a great day.
A blue water bay can be seen in the distance, framed by a hillside to the left, and green peatlands under an almost cloudless sky.
August 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Trig point, St Ninians Isle, Shetland.
Pyramidal shaped stone Ordnance Survey triangulation marker stone, set in green grass, blue sea and islands in the distance.
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It's always nice to see LK243 "Swan".
Wooden sailing ship, ketch rigged, white with a green band, tied with a long line to the dockside.
May 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Some of the WW2 liberation flotilla in Lerwick still, Norwegian D/S Hestmanden.
Bow of a grey metal ship framed by a blue sea and sky, pier to the left. Stern of a grey metal ship, Norwegian flag prominent, dock in the foreground.
May 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Inside the tower on Ander Hill, and the inside story of why it's there. www.archaeologyshetland.org/post/site-in... #shetland
Brick and stone building interior, lit by unglazed window openings, the floors noticeably absent.
April 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Abandoned Coastguard lookout tower, Ander Hill, Bressay. #shetland
A tower of render and stone, windows missing, surrounded by green grass. The tower has no windows and is abandoned.
April 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Easting, Unst
Site of a former Viking settlement and long house.
April 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Collaster, Unst
One of many abandoned settlements. They would have had a nice view of the sunset sat by the fire!
Stone fireplace to the left, to the right the setting sun shines through the remains of a window in a stone ruin of a house. Ruin of a stone house set in green grassland under a blue sky.
April 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Lund Headland
Wide view of Lund, green grass foreground, blue sea inlet to the right, chapel and graveyard in the distance.
March 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Lund, Unst
Gravestones besides the ruins of a chapel, a sandy beach in the background, under a blue sky. Inside the roofless chapel ruins, framed by an arch showing the interior monuments.
March 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Westing, Unst, Shetland Islands
Ocean sunset shows a colourful sky of various hues of red fading into a blue/purple sky, in the foreground a fenced tarmac road leads away into the distance, green fields either side.
March 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Gutcher, Yell
A tarmac road leads down to a calm flat sea and a ferry dock, blue sky above.
February 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Lamba Ness, Unst. Site of the new "Saxa Vord" space port.
View of industrial boxy buildings on a green and brown moorland peninsula, blue sea, white clouds in a blue sky.
February 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A dyke at Collaster, Unst

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Landscape photograph, the picture split in two by a stone dyke (wall) and fence, showing a clear contrast, the sun is setting to the left, sea and coast visible to the right.
February 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Standing stone, Burragarth, Unst #standingstonesunday
Monochrome picture showing a standing stone surrounded by a pool of water in a moorland setting.
February 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Uyeasound, Unst
Evening sky of reds and pinks reflected in a calm sea bay.
February 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Park Lane, Lerwick
Small lane going up hill with steps, white stone building to the right with red paint work.
February 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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(Ruins off) Southerhouse, Collaster, Unst
Landscape showing a ruined stone building, gable end, red sunset sky.
February 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Charlotte Passage, Lerwick.
Houses and a stone wall flank a flagstone alley way going downhill.
February 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Muckle Flugga island, the lighthouse is Britain's most Northerly, a Stevenson build of 1858.
Landscape scene showing a lighthouse in the distance surrounded by blue sea, sheep in foreground.
February 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Toolie, looking out to the Atlantic West.
A view of cliffs from the top looking down to the Atlantic Ocean, rainbow to the left, blue skies.
February 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Saxa Vord Hill, Unst. A view of the RAF radar dome looking across a moorland peat valley.
February 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Hermaness
Landscape image, moody sky, contrast with sky reflected in pools of water across moorland.
February 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM