Lamba is an uninhabited island in Yell Sound in

Shetland Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway, marking the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the ...

. It lies north of the entrance to the Sullom Voe inlet and east of the Mainland coastline near Ollaberry. Rising 35 metres above sea level, it has an area of . Its main features are a 27m high light marking the entrance to Sullom Voe, and an adjacent communications mast. There are similarly named places, Lamba in the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

and

Lambay Lambay Island (), often simply Lambay, is an island in the Irish Sea off the coast of north County Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The largest island off the east coast of Ireland, it is offshore from the headland at Portrane, and is th ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

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Uninhabited islands of Shetland {{Shetland-geo-stub