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Lerwick

Lerwick is the largest town and capital of the , with a population of 6760 in 2022. It's the obvious base for touring Shetland.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bressay and Shetland Museum.

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The island of is in the just east of Mainland, and is the most accessible island from Lerwick. It's a peaceful place of lochs and sea caves, arches and migrating birds that is great for hikes, panoramas, historical sites, and wildlife.

Museum
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The and Archives is a museum in Lerwick, , Scotland. The new at Hay's Dock was officially opened on 31 May 2007 by Queen Sonja of Norway and the Duke & Duchess of Rothesay.

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in the centre of Lerwick, , is an artillery fort, roughly five sided, with bastions on each of three landward corners, and half-bastions on the corners of the seaward face.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sound and Gulberwick.

Quarter
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Lerwick is the largest town and capital of the , with a population of 6760 in 2022. It's the obvious base for touring Shetland.

Village
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is a village on , 2.5 mi southwest of Lerwick, , Scotland, which contains approximately 200 houses. In recent years the number of houses in the area has increased due to its nearness to Shetland's capital and biggest town, Lerwick. is situated 3 miles southwest of Lerwick.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Lerwick.

Lerwick

Latitude
60.1531° or 60° 9′ 11″ north
Longitude
-1.1427° or 1° 8′ 34″ west
Population
6,710
IATA airport code
LSI
United Nations Location Code
GB LER
Open location code
9CGW5V34+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2464602915
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2644605
Wiki­data ID
Q213485
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Lerwick” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ليرويك”
  • Asturian: “Lerwick”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lervik”
  • Basque: “Lerwick”
  • Belarusian: “Леруік”
  • Bengali: “লারওয়িক”
  • Catalan: “Lerwick”
  • Cebuano: “Lerwick”
  • Chinese: “勒域克”
  • Chinese: “勒威克”
  • Czech: “Lerwick”
  • Danish: “Lerwick”
  • Dutch: “Lerwick”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليرويك”
  • Esperanto: “Lerwick”
  • Faroese: “Lerwick”
  • Finnish: “Lerwick”
  • French: “Lerwick”
  • Galician: “Lerwick”
  • German: “Lerwick”
  • Greek: “Λέργουικ”
  • Gujarati: “લેર્વિક”
  • Hebrew: “לרוויק”
  • Hungarian: “Lerwick”
  • Icelandic: “Leirvík”
  • Icelandic: “Lerwick”
  • Ido: “Lerwick”
  • Indonesian: “Lerwick”
  • Irish: “Liúrabhaig”
  • Irish: “Liùrabhaig”
  • Italian: “Lerwick”
  • Japanese: “ラーウィック”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆರ್ವಿಕ್”
  • Korean: “러윅”
  • Latvian: “Lērika”
  • Lithuanian: “Lervikas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lerwick”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lerwick”
  • Norwegian: “Lerwick”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lāmwic”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lāmƿic”
  • Ossetian: “Леруик”
  • Persian: “لرویک”
  • Polish: “Lerwick”
  • Portuguese: “Lerwick”
  • Romanian: “Lerwick”
  • Russian: “Леруик”
  • Scots: “Lerook”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lerwick”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Liùrabhaig”
  • Serbian: “Лервик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lerwick”
  • Slovak: “Lerwick”
  • Slovenian: “Lerwick”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لرویک”
  • Spanish: “Lerwick”
  • Swedish: “Lerwick”
  • Tamil: “லெரிவிக்”
  • Telugu: “లెర్విక్”
  • Thai: “เลอร์วิก”
  • Ukrainian: “Лервік”
  • Urdu: “لیرویک”
  • Welsh: “Lerwick”
  • Western Frisian: “Lerwick”

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