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Tourist Spot Attractions In Sumburgh

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Sumburgh Head is located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. The head is a 100 m high rocky spur capped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. The Old Norse name was Dunrøstar høfdi, it means The Head onto the loud tide-race, referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost. The area is an RSPB nature reserve. The cliffs were home to large numbers of seabirds with for example 33000 puffins in the year 2000. These numbers have declined sharply with number dropped to 570 in 2017. This decline also applies to other species.Sumburgh Airport lies immediately to the north of the head, and is Shetland's main airport. Flights from here conne...
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  • 1. Old Scatness Sumburgh
    The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three sites in Shetland that have applied to be on the United Kingdom Tentative List of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. The application was made by the Shetland Amenity Trust in 2010, and in 2011 the site became one of 11 successful UK applications to join the Tentative List, three of them from Scotland.
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  • 2. Scalloway Castle Scalloway
    Scalloway is the largest settlement on the North Atlantic coast of Mainland, the largest island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The village had a population of approximately 812, at the 2001 census. Until 1708 it was the capital of the Shetland Islands . Scalloway is the location of the North Atlantic Fisheries College , which offers courses and supports research programmes in fisheries sciences, aquaculture, marine engineering and coastal management. It is also home to the Centre for Nordic Studies. Nearby are the Scalloway Islands, which derive their name from the town. The village has a swimming pool and a school, Scalloway Junior High School, the secondary department of which was closed in July 2011 by the Shetland Islands Council.
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