Fair Isle
Fair Isle is one of the Shetland Islands. It lies 24 miles south of Shetland Mainland, midway between Shetland and Orkney, and vies with Foula for the title of Britain's most remote inhabited island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Wheeler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Island
- Description: island at the south of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Sheep Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fair Isle Airport and South Lighthouse.
Fair Isle Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: LHOON, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Fair Isle Airport, is a regional airport located in Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stonybreck.
Fair Isle
- Category: landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Fair Isle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Western Frisian—“Fair Isle” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Fer adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Feyr adası”
- Basque: “Fair Isle”
- Breton: “Fara”
- Catalan: “Fair Isle”
- Cebuano: “Fair Isle”
- Chinese: “費爾島”
- Chinese: “费尔岛”
- Czech: “Fair Isle”
- Danish: “Fair Isle”
- Dutch: “Fair Isle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاير ايسل”
- Faroese: “Fair Isle”
- Finnish: “Fair Isle”
- French: “Fair Isle”
- German: “Fair Isle”
- Greek: “Φερ”
- Hebrew: “פייר אייל”
- Hungarian: “Fair Isle”
- Hungarian: “Fair-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Fair Isle”
- Icelandic: “Fjárey”
- Icelandic: “Friðarey”
- Icelandic: “Frjóey”
- Irish: “Fara”
- Italian: “Fair Isle”
- Italian: “Isola di Fair”
- Japanese: “フェア島”
- Lithuanian: “Fero sala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fair Isle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fair Isle”
- Norwegian: “Fair Isle”
- Old Norse: “Friðarey”
- Polish: “Fair Isle”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Fair”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Fair”
- Russian: “Фэйр Айл”
- Russian: “Фэйр-Айл”
- Russian: “Фэр-Айл”
- Scots: “Fair Isle”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fara, Sealtainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fara”
- Spanish: “Fair Isle”
- Spanish: “isla Fair”
- Spanish: “Isla Fair”
- Swedish: “Fair Isle”
- Swiss German: “Fair Isle”
- Tosk Albanian: “Fair Isle”
- Turkish: “Fair Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Фейр-Айсл”
- Ukrainian: “Фер-Айл”
- Welsh: “Fair Isle”
- Western Frisian: “Fair Eilân”
- Western Frisian: “Fair Isle”
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