NOUN
- an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland
How To Use Shetland Islands In A Sentence
- The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
- (Kirkevaag) was made the seat of a diocese (diœcesis Orcadensis), in connexion with which a cathedra! chapter was later established, and the Shetland Islands were assigned it as an archidiaconate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Every year a portion of the 614 residents of the island of Unst, the northernmost of the Scottish Shetland Islands, band together to decorate their stop near Baltasound.
- The last major incident in the North Sea was in 1993, when the MV Braer carrying 85,000 metric tons of crude oil ran aground in a storm in the Shetland Islands. Shell: 54,600 gallons of oil spilled in North Sea
- The accident threatened an ecological disaster for the remote Shetland Islands and its fishing, tourism and farming industries.
- Expedition Cruises (expeditioncruises. com) takes passengers to see a research station at King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, swim in the geothermally heated waters at Deception Island, set foot on Antarctica's Paradise Bay peninsula and watch penguins in their natural habitat -- all in five-star luxury. Travel:The Icy Final Frontier
- Also known as the Goose-beaked whale, this creature is found as far north as the Shetland Islands and as south as Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of South America.
- The deal includes Exxon Mobil's nonoperated interests in the Maclure, Scott and Telford fields and the Benbecula exploration acreage west of the Shetland Islands. Exxon Sells U.K. North Sea Assets to Apache
- They were pictured chatting about the benefits of organic food in a food hall resplendent with purple calabash tomatoes, butternut chutney and smoked salmon from the Shetland Islands packaged in wrappers adorned with hearts.
- Major changes to drilling regulations could have a significant impact on the U.K. because its main deep-water area, west of the Shetland Islands, is thought to be home to the bulk of the country's undeveloped oil and gas resources. U.K. Panel Questions Readiness to Fix Spill
