page_title: List of Shetland islands
section_title: Smaller islets and skerries
hierarchical_section_title: List of Shetland islands / Smaller islets and skerries
caption_attribution_description: Baa Skerries Even on a calm day, there's a lot of white water around these rocks.
context_page_description: This is a list of Shetland islands in Scotland. The Shetland archipelago is located 100 kilometres north of mainland Scotland and the capital Lerwick is almost equidistant from Bergen in Norway and Aberdeen in Scotland. The Shetland archipelago comprises about 300 islands and skerries, of which 16 are inhabited. In addition to the Shetland Mainland the larger islands are Unst, Yell and Fetlar.
  The definition of an island used in this list is that it is land that is surrounded by seawater on a daily basis, but not necessarily at all stages of the tide, excluding human devices such as bridges and causeways. There are four islands joined to the Shetland Mainland by bridges, East Burra, West Burra, Trondra, and Muckle Roe. There is also a bridge from Housay to Bruray. Nowhere in Shetland is more than three miles from the sea. Mavis Grind is a narrow neck of land little more than 100 metres wide separating St. Magnus Bay and the Atlantic in the west from Sullom Voe and the North Sea in the east.
  The geology of Shetland is complex with numerous faults and fold axes.
context_section_description: This is a continuing list of uninhabited smaller Shetland islands, tidal islets only separated at higher stages of the tide, and skerries which are only exposed at lower stages of the tide. Many of these islets are called "Holm" from the Old Norse holmr, meaning a "small and rounded islet". "Swarta Skerry" (Old Norse:' svartar sker) –  "black skerry" is also a common name, as are "Linga", meaning "heather island", "Taing" (Old Norse: tangi) meaning "tongue"  and "Flaesh" (Old Norse: fles) meaning "flat skerry". "Hog" and "calf" are used to indicate a small island, usually adjacent to a larger one.
caption: Baa Skerries, Unst
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