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West Burra

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West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. [1]

18 relations: Beach, Bridge, Broch, Burra, Shetland, Country music, East Burra, Iceland, Island, Mainland, Shetland, Orkneyinga saga, Papar, Scalloway Islands, Scotland, Shetland, Shetland Museum, Thomas Fraser (singer), Tombolo, Trondra.

Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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Broch

A broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland.

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Burra, Shetland

Burra (Old Norse: Barrey) is the collective name for two of the Shetland Islands, West (pop. 753) and East Burra (pop. 66), which are connected by bridge to one another, and to the Shetland Mainland via Trondra.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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East Burra

East Burra (Old Norse: "Barrey") is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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Mainland, Shetland

The Mainland is the main island of Shetland, Scotland.

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Orkneyinga saga

The Orkneyinga saga (also called the History of the Earls of Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is an historical narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship with other local polities, particularly Norway and Scotland.

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Papar

The Papar (from Latin papa, via Old Irish, meaning "father" or "pope") were, according to early Icelandic sagas, Irish monks who took eremitic residence in parts of what is now Iceland before that island's habitation by the Norsemen of Scandinavia, as evidenced by the sagas and recent archaeological findings.

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Scalloway Islands

The Scalloway Islands are in Shetland opposite Scalloway on south west of the Mainland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Shetland Museum

The New Shetland Museum and Archives at Hay's Dock, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, was officially opened on 31 May 2007 by HM Queen Sonja of Norway and the Duke & Duchess of Rothesay (Charles & Camilla).

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Thomas Fraser (singer)

Thomas Fraser (1927–1978) was a Scottish fisherman and Country and Western and rhythm and blues musician from the Shetland Isles.

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Tombolo

A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, derived from the Latin tumulus, meaning 'mound', and sometimes translated as ayre, is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar.

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Trondra

Trondra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland.

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Bridge End, Shetland, Isle of Burra.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Burra

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