Trondra
Scalloway is a fishing village in the Shetland Islands. It was the capital of these islands until 1708 when Lerwick supplanted it. The population in 2011 was 900.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rog Frost, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scalloway Castle and Green Holm.
Scalloway Castle
Castle
Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scalloway Castle is a tower house in Scalloway, on the Shetland Mainland, the largest island in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The tower was built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, during his brief period as de facto ruler of Shetland.
Green Holm
Islet
Green Holm, is a small uninhabited island 500 metres north of Burra Ness at the north end of the island of Burra and on the west side of the main shipping lane into Scalloway, in Shetland.
Papa
Islet
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Papa is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. Papa lies north west of Burra and east of Oxna in the Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891. Papa is situated 2 miles west of Trondra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scalloway and Quarff.
Scalloway
Scalloway is a fishing village in the Shetland Islands. It was the capital of these islands until 1708 when Lerwick supplanted it. The population in 2011 was 900.
Quarff
Village
Photo: Shimgray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 2 miles southeast of Trondra.
Burwick
Hamlet
Burwick is a small peninsula north of Scalloway in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Hill of Burwick rises to 107 metres, the Ness of Burwick is a headland that guards the bay of Bur Wick, and Burwick Holm is a small island with an elevation of about 10 metres, just off shore in the Scalloway Islands. Burwick is situated 2½ miles north of Trondra.
Trondra
- 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 Welsh—“Trondra” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Trondra”
- Catalan: “Trondra”
- Cebuano: “Trondra Island”
- Cebuano: “Trondra”
- Chinese: “特隆德拉岛”
- Chinese: “特隆德拉島”
- Danish: “Trondra”
- Dutch: “Trondra”
- French: “Trondra”
- German: “Trondra”
- Hebrew: “טרונדרה”
- Italian: “Trondra”
- Japanese: “トロンドラ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Trondra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Trondra”
- Norwegian: “Trondra”
- Polish: “Trondra”
- Scots: “Trondra”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Trondra”
- Spanish: “Trondra”
- Swedish: “Trondra Island”
- Swedish: “Trondra”
- Ukrainian: “Трондра”
- Welsh: “Trondra”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Trondra”. Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.