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MV Snolda
MV ''Snolda'' is a ro-ro passenger ferry operated by the SIC Ferries. She operates as the West Burrafirth to Papa Stour service. The ship was originally named MV ''Filla'' until 2003. History ''Filla'' was bought as the second of the second batch of new builds for the Council since they took over the inter-island ferry services in the early 1970s. She was renamed to ''Snolda'' when transferred from the Out Skerries route to the Papa Stour route to make way for the new . This new ferry was based on the original ''Filla''s design but larger, with cargo tanks and refrigerated units and diesel electric driven propulsion. Layout The ''Snolda'' has a stern loading only car deck, which, in the SIC fleet, is only on her and her successor, ''Filla''. She has a small passenger lounge forward of the car deck. Service Entering service on 28 November 1983 on the Symbister or Vidlin or Lerwick to Out Skerries The Out Skerries are an archipelago of islets, some inhabited, in She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shetland Islands Council
The Shetland Islands Council ( sco, Shetland Islands Cooncil; gd, Comhairle Shealtainn) is the local authority for Shetland, Scotland. It was established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and is the successor to the former Lerwick Town Council and Zetland County Council. This council was established in 1975 and was largely unaffected by the Scottish local government changes of the mid-1990s. It provides services in the areas of Environmental Health, Roads, Social Work, Community Development, Organisational Development, Economic Development, Building Standards, Trading Standards, Housing, Waste, Education, Burial Grounds, Port and Harbours and others. The council is allowed to collect Council Tax. The Fire Service is part of the Highlands and Islands division of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. In 2011, structural reforms saw the creation of the Political Leader position, with the Convenor becoming a civic leadership post. Composition As of 2022 the council has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papa Stour
Papa Stour ( sco, Papa Stour) is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s. Located to the west of mainland Shetland and with an area of 828 hectares (3.2 square miles), Papa Stour is the eighth largest island in Shetland. Erosion of the soft volcanic rocks by the sea has created an extraordinary variety of caves, stacks, arches, blowholes, and cliffs. The island and its surrounding seas harbour diverse populations of wildlife. The west side of the island is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and the seas around the island are a Special Area of Conservation. The island has several Neolithic burial chamber sites, as well as the remains of Duke Hakon's 13th-century house dating from the Norse occupation of the island. The population reached 380 or more in the nineteenth century, when a fishing station was opened at Crabbaberry in West Voe. Subsequently, ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport In Shetland
Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Ships
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Isle
Fair Isle (; sco, Fair Isle; non, Friðarey; gd, Fara) is an island in Shetland, in northern Scotland. It lies about halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney. It is known for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting. The island has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1954. Geography the most remote inhabited island in the United Kingdom. It is administratively part of the parish of Dunrossness, Shetland, and is roughly equidistant from Sumburgh Head, some to the northeast on the Mainland of Shetland and North Ronaldsay, Orkney, some to the southwest. Fair Isle is long and wide. It has an area of , making it the tenth-largest of the Shetland Islands. It gives its name to one of the British Sea Areas. Most of the islanders live in the crofts on the southern half of the island, the northern half consisting of rocky moorland. The western coast consists of cliffs of up to in height, Ward Hill at being the highest point of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foula
Foula (; sco, also Foola; nrn, Fuglø), located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom’s most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since the turn of the 20th century by the Holbourn family, the island was the location for the film '' The Edge of the World'' (1937). The liner RMS ''Oceanic'' was wrecked on the nearby Shaalds of Foula in 1914. Toponym The name "Foula" derives from Old Norse ''Fugley'', "bird island": compare the Faroese name of the island of Fugloy, "bird island", and Scottish Gaelic ''Fughlaigh''. Geography Foula lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Walls in Shetland. It was part of Walls civil parish. The island is about , with a low-lying coastal strip along the east side. With an area of , it is the seventh largest and most westerly of the Shetland Islands. It rises from low broken cliffs in the east to precipitous cliffs in the west. The island has five peaks, rising to at the Sneug and at the Kame. At the nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidlin
Vidlin (from Old Norse: ''Vaðill'' meaning a ford) is a small village located on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Nesting. History It is at the head of Vidlin Voe, and is the modern heart of the old parish of Lunnasting, which centred on the early church at Lunna on Lunna Ness. The Lunnasting stone, which bears an undeciphered Pictish ogham inscription was found nearby and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1876. Notable people Steven Robertson is a theatre and film actor who has appeared in a number of successful films. He was born in Vidlin and attended the local school. The poet Rhoda Bulter's mother came from Skelberry in Lunnasting, and she herself lived there for two crucially formative years when young. The Walls poet Christine de Luca Christine De Luca (born 4 April 1947) is a Scottish poet and writer from Shetland, who writes in both English and Shetland dialect. Her poetry has been translated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbister
Symbister is the largest village and port on Whalsay, an island in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland. The population in 1991 was 797. The focus of the village is the harbour, which is home to small fishing boats as well as large deep sea trawlers. The village is overlooked by the granite mansion Symbister House, built by the Sixth Robert Bruce of Symbister in 1823. The harbour is also known by the names Bay Of Symbister, Symbister Harbour and Symbister Old Harbour. The Pier House, now a museum, was once the centre for the export of dried and salted fish to the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over much of Northern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. History The island has been inhabited for more than 4000 years as witnessed by the Neolithic houses of Yoxie and Benie. An Iron Age block house to the northeast overlooks the Loch of Huxter. In the 14th century, the Huxters took over the island and hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Filla In North Haven, Fair Isle - Geograph
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Out Skerries
The Out Skerries are an archipelago of islets, some inhabited, in Shetland, Scotland, and are the easternmost part of Shetland. Locally, they are usually called Da Skerries or just Skerries. Geography The Out Skerries lie about northeast of Whalsay and Bound Skerry forms the easternmost part of Shetland, lying just 186 miles (300 km) west from Tjeldstø in Norway. The main islands are Housay, Bruray and Grunay. A large number of skerries, islets and stacks surround the main group. These include the Hevda Skerries and Wether Holm to the north, the Holm to the south and Lamba Stack and Flat Lamba Stack to the east. Stoura Stack and the Hogg are to the south of Grunay. Bound Skerry, which has a lighthouse, is flanked by Little Bound Skerry and Horn Skerry. Beyond Mio Ness at the southwest tip of Housay are North and South Benelip and the Easter Skerries, as well as Filla, Short and Long Guen (the Guens), Bilia Skerry, and Swaba Stack. In an isolated group between the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burrafirth
Burrafirth links ( Old Norse: ''Borgarfjorðr'', meaning "the fjord with a castle") is a strip of land with a few houses on the island of Unst, Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ..., Scotland. It separates the fjord Burra Firth from the Loch of Cliff. Burrafirth is said to have once been home to a giant called Saxi, who, together with another giant, was lured away by a mermaid. References External links Canmore - Unst, Burra Firth, Burgar Stack site recordCanmore - Unst, Burra Firth, Norse Mill site record [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SIC Ferries
Shetland Islands Council Ferries (often named SIC Ferries) is a company operating inter-island ferry services in Shetland, a subarctic archipelago off the northeast coast of Scotland. The company operates services across 10 of the Shetland islands. Services Services of the SIC Ferries are: *''Bluemull service'' linking the North Isles at Gutcher, Yell; Belmont, Unst; and Hamars Ness, Fetlar. *''Bressay service'' to the isle of Bressay from Lerwick on the Mainland. *''Fair Isle service'' to the isle of Fair Isle from Grutness or Lerwick on the Mainland. *''Foula service'' to the isle of Foula from Walls on the Mainland. This service is operated by BK Marine *''Out Skerries service'' to the isle of Out Skerries from Vidlin, Symbister (on Whalsay) or Lerwick on the Mainland *''Papa Stour'' to the isle of Papa Stour from West Burrafirth on the Mainland. *''Whalsay service'' to the isle of Whalsay from Laxo on the Mainland. *''Yell service'' to the North Isle of Yell from Toft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
