Jarlshof Visitor Centre

Jarlshof Visitor Centre is a building in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Jarlshof Visitor Centre is situated near the museum Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement, as well as near the archaeological site Iron Age Settlement.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Sumburgh Airport and Ness of Burgi fort.

Sumburgh Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sumburgh Airport is the main airport serving the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is located on the southern tip of the mainland in the parish of Dunrossness, 20 miles south of Lerwick.

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. Ness of Burgi fort is situated 1 mile southwest of Jarlshof Visitor Centre.

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. Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Jarlshof Visitor Centre.

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.

Jarlshof Visitor Centre

Type: Building
Address: Shetland, ZE3 9JN
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

59.86882° or 59° 52′ 8″ north

Longitude

-1.29004° or 1° 17′ 24″ west

Levels

Open location code

9CFWVP95+GX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 182247215

OpenStreetMap feature

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement and Iron Age Settlement.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Sumburgh Hotel Lounge Bar and Sumburgh Hotel.

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