Participants dressed as Vikings prepare to participate in the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, on January 28, 2014. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the… Getty Images ...

The annual Viking-inspired fire festival of Up Helly Aa, described by organizers as “a northern Mardi Gras,” was held in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands on Tuesday, January 30. The ...

The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Lying roughly 100 km north of the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Islands ...

The streets of a tiny Scottish town have once again been filled with fire and smoke as hundreds take part in a historic Viking festival. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, is held on the ...

LERWICK, Shetland Islands (Reuters) - Twelve hours by ferry from the Scottish mainland, hundreds of miles from Edinburgh and closer to Oslo than London, the windswept Shetland islands have their own ...

Events like Wool Week and a deep passion for all things knitting make Scotland's Shetland Islands a paradise for knitters and ...

Ripe ears of sweetcorn poke from their green leafy casing; grapes hang from vines. Here in Northmavine, a wild, beautiful parish in the northern Shetland Islands where the elements combine tomake ...

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Scotland is battling a significant litter issue, reportedly worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic. Urban areas have been hit hardest, with Dundee and Glasgow topping the list of Scotland's most littered ...