West Burra
West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is the largest island in the Scalloway Islands. There are several prehistoric sites on the island.Photo: Ken Craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fugla Ness Lighthouse.
Fugla Ness Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fugla Ness Lighthouse is situated 2 miles north of West Burra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cunningsburgh and Quarff.
Cunningsburgh
Hamlet
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Cunningsburgh, formerly also known as Coningsburgh, is a new hamlet and ancient parish in the south of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The hamlet is on the coast, nine miles south-southwest of Lerwick, about halfway between there and Sumburgh Head. Cunningsburgh is situated 4½ miles southeast of West Burra.
Quarff
Village
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Quarff is a small village on Mainland in the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is located on the main A970 road, 5 miles south of Shetland's only town, Lerwick. Quarff is situated 4½ miles northeast of West Burra.
Aithsetter
Village
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Aithsetter is a village on the island of Mainland, in Shetland, Scotland. Aithsetter is in the parish of Dunrossness, towards the north end of the district of Cunningsburgh and formerly of that ancient parish. It is nearly 10 miles from Lerwick. Aithsetter is situated 5 miles east of West Burra.
West Burra
- Type: Island
- Description: one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
- Category: landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“West Burra” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Burra”
- Cebuano: “West Burra Island”
- Cebuano: “West Burra”
- Chinese: “西巴拉島”
- Danish: “West Burra”
- Dutch: “West Burra”
- French: “Burra Ouest”
- German: “West Burra”
- Greek: “Ουέστ Μπούρα”
- Italian: “West Burra”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・バラ島”
- Japanese: “ウエスト・バラ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Burra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “West Burra”
- Russian: “Уэст-Берра”
- Scottish Gaelic: “West Burra”
- Swedish: “West Burra”
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