Islands in Shetland IslandsShetland Islands, Scotland

Shetland's main island, with Lerwick and Scalloway, the layered ruins of Jarlshof, puffins at Sumburgh Head and the Eshaness cliffs

948 km² · Aith

Large peaty island on the way to Unst, known for otters, the Old Haa museum at Burravoe and the Gloup disaster memorial

210 km² · Mid Yell

Island across the harbour from Lerwick, with the Ward of Bressay hill, a lighthouse, sea cliffs and the crossing to Noss

27 km² · Lerwick

Green, fertile island called the Garden of Shetland, where rare red-necked phalaropes breed at the Loch of Funzie

40 km² · Houbie

Red granite island near Brae, walked for its cliff path to the Hams, sea stacks, sandy coves and a small lighthouse

17 km² · Brae

Britain's most northerly inhabited island, with Hermaness's seabird cliffs above Muckle Flugga, Muness Castle, Viking longhouse sites and Bobby's Bus Shelter

119 km² · Baltasound

Fishing island with Symbister's harbour, a restored Hanseatic trading booth and Hugh MacDiarmid's former home at Sodom

19 km² · Symbister

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

7.1 km² · Scalloway

National Trust for Scotland island midway to Orkney, with a bird observatory for rare migrants, puffin cliffs and its own knitwear

8.1 km² · Shetland Islands

Remote island of great skuas and the Kame, among Britain's highest sea cliffs, where islanders still keep Yule on 6 January

13 km² · Shetland Islands

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

1.8 km² · Bigton

National nature reserve whose 181-metre Noup cliffs hold thousands of nesting gannets, with puffins, great skuas and a summer visitor centre

3.3 km² · Lerwick

Shetland's most easterly community, three rocky islets round a sheltered harbour, good for migrant birds and Bound Skerry lighthouse

2.4 km² · Shetland Islands

Island of sea caves, arches and stacks, with a handful of residents and an excavated Norse farmhouse at Da Biggins

8 km² · Shetland Islands

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

0.87 km² · Bigton

Small crofting island between Scalloway and Burra, crossed by bridges, with quiet cycling roads and a rocky shore popular with kayakers

2.8 km² · Scalloway