Nearest airport to Lerwick/Tingwall Airport and Shetland Islands is Whalsay Airport - (24.56 Km / 15.26 Miles) Following are the nearest airports to Shetland Islands and Lerwick/Tingwall Airport.

Nobody puts Shetland in the corner. At least not now. New rules have come into force stopping public bodies from putting the islands in a box on official documents and maps. Instead, maps will now ...

For hundreds of years map makers have put the islands, which are 125 miles away from the mainland, in a box to avoid publishing a map with vast amounts of empty ocean.

The Shetland Seafood Centre is pictured at Lerwick Harbour in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, on February 1, 2017. In the fishing ports of the remote Shetland Islands off northern Scotland, hopes are ...

With a population of 22,990, most of the island’s inhabitants live within a 10-mile radius of Lerwick on Shetland’s largest island, the Mainland. MORE: Great British Bake Off latest departure ...

The Shetland Islands must be represented accurately on official maps, rather than being boxed off to save space, after a new law came in to force. Sections of the new Islands (Scotland) Act have ...

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Flickr Shetland, a cluster of more than 100 islands far north of the Scottish mainland, has long presented cartographers with a problem.