Quendale

An award-winning crescent of pale sand just south-west of Sumburgh Airport in the South Mainland.

3.4 km SE

Shetland's finest strand, a wide sweep of white sand backed by dunes at the Bay of Scousburgh in the South Mainland.

5.3 km N

Green isle joined to Bigton by a sand tombolo, with the ruined chapel where Pictish silver was found in 1958

7.7 km N

Home of Mousa Broch, the best-preserved Iron Age broch, where storm petrels return to nest in the walls on summer nights

13.8 km NE

Bridge-linked pair of islands south of Scalloway, with the fishing village of Hamnavoe, Meal and Minn beaches and the Kettla Ness walk

16 km N

A slender tombolo of white sand and pebbles linking West Burra to the Kettla Ness peninsula, grazed by Shetland ponies.

17.9 km N