Sumburgh Head
Sumburgh Head is a headland located at the southern tip of the main island of the Shetland Archipelago, in northern Scotland. The head consists of a 100 m high rocky spur and topped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jeremy Duncan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sumburgh Head Lighthouse and Jarlshof.
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Sumburgh Head at the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland.
Jarlshof
Nature reserve
Jarlshof is the best-known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland. It lies in Sumburgh, Mainland, Shetland and has been described as "one of the most remarkable archaeological sites ever excavated in the British Isles".
Ness of Burgi fort
Fort
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ness of Burgi fort is an iron-age promontory fort in the Old Scatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south of the island of Mainland, Shetland in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sumburgh and Scatness.
Sumburgh
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sumburgh is a village near the southern tip of Mainland in the Shetland Islands, with a population in 2011 of about 100. Its main attraction is Jarlshof, continuously inhabited for 4000 years.
Scatness
Village
Photo: Douglas Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scatness is a settlement on the headland of Scat Ness at the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, across the West Voe of Sumburgh from Sumburgh Head and close to Sumburgh Airport, the Shetland Islands' main airport.
Exnaboe
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Exnaboe, locally referred to as 'bö', is a settlement in the Virkie area of the parish of Dunrossness, South Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, overlooking Sumburgh Airport, and the Pool of Virkie.
Sumburgh Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
59.85321° or 59° 51′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.27529° or 1° 16′ 31″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
9CFWVP3F+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 9957483836OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sumburgh Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sumburgh Head”
- Chinese: “萨姆堡角”
- French: “Sumburgh Head”
- Italian: “Sumburgh Head”
- Japanese: “サンバラ岬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumburgh Head”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumburgh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sumburgh Head”
- Norwegian: “Sumburgh Head”
- Russian: “Самборо-Хед”
- Swedish: “Sumburgh Head”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sumburgh Head”. Photo: Jeremy Duncan, CC BY-SA 2.0.