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Shetland Islands

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Noun

1. shetland, shetland islands, zetland

an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shetland Islands

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noun
another name for Shetland

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Shetland Islands

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An archipelago of northern Scotland in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of the Orkney Islands. The islands were occupied by Norse invaders and colonists after the late ninth century and were annexed by Scotland in 1472.

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