Lerwick
Lerwick is the largest town and capital of the Shetland Islands. It's the obvious base for touring these. The TIC is the VisitScotland iCentre on Market Cross, south end of the harbour.
Photo: Erik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: swifant, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Bressay
The island of Bressay is in the Shetland Islands just east of Mainland, and is the most accessible island from Lerwick. Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.Broch of Clickimin
Archaeological site
The Broch of Clickimin is a large, well-preserved but restored broch in Lerwick in Shetland, Scotland. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Charlotte
Tourist attraction
Fort Charlotte in the centre of Lerwick, Shetland, is an artillery fort, roughly five sided, with… Photo: Lrs1572, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Lerwick Town Hall
Town hall
Lerwick Town Hall is a municipal building located in central Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lerwick
- Type: Town
- Description: town and port on Shetland, and capital of the Shetland Islands, Scotland
- Category: small burgh
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
Latitude 60.1531° or 60° 9' 11.3" north | Longitude -1.1427° or 1° 8' 33.8" west |
Population 6880 | IATA airport code LSI |
United Nations Location Code GB LER | OpenStreetMap ID node 2464602915 |
GeoNames ID 2644605 |
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Also Known As
- Arabic: ليرويك
- Asturian: Lerwick
- Azerbaijani: Lervik
- Basque: Lerwick
- Belarusian: Леруік
- Bengali: লারওয়িক
- Cebuano: Lerwick
- Chinese: 勒域克
- Chinese: 勒威克
- Czech: Lerwick
- Danish: Lerwick
- Dutch: 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
- Italian: Lerwick
- Japanese: ラーウィック
- Kannada: ಲೆರ್ವಿಕ್
- Korean: 러윅
- Lithuanian: Lervikas
- Norwegian: Lerwick
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lerwick
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
- South Azerbaijani: لرویک
- Spanish: Lerwick
- Swedish: Lerwick
- Tamil: லெரிவிக்
- Telugu: లెర్విక్
- Ukrainian: Лервік
- Urdu: لیرویک
- Welsh: Lerwick
- Western Frisian: Lerwick
Other Places Named Lerwick
In the Area
Localities
- HamHamlet
- GulberwickVillage, 3 miles southwest
- Tingwall3½ miles west
- VeensgarthVillage, 3½ miles northwest
- QuarffVillage, 4½ miles southwest
- Scalloway
Landmarks
- Ware GeoCove
- Montfield HospitalBuilding
- Yellow StackPoint
- North NessPoint
- Twageos PointPoint
- Gilbert Bain HospitalHospital
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