shetland islands in English
noun
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a group of about 100 islands off the north coast of Scotland, northeast of the Orkneys, that constitute the administrative region of Shetland; population 21,800 (est. 2009); chief town, Lerwick. Together with the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands became a part of Scotland in 1472.
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1. Columba, a neighbour of the giant Ninian field[sentencedict .com], is located some 105 miles east of the Shetland Islands.
2. So there are serious questions about the green credentials of plans to build Europe's largest onshore wind farm on 187 square kilometres of thick peat on the Shetland Islands.