West Burra

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West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is connected by bridge to East Burra. With an area of 743 hectares, it is the eleventh-largest of the Shetland Islands. ()

Alternative names: Area: 2.87 mi²Coordinates: 60°4'47"N, 1°19'60"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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West Burra – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lerwick Observatory, Scalloway Castle, Oxna, Catpund.

6.6 miNE
Museum, Observatories and planetariums
Lerwick Observatory, Law Ting Holm
168 min walk • Lerwick Observatory is a British meteorological observatory located near the port at Lerwick, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom. It is one of three permanent geomagnetic observatories in the United Kingdom.
4.4 miNE
Museum, Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Scalloway Castle, Mainland
113 min walk • Scalloway Castle is a tower house in Scalloway, on the Shetland Mainland, the largest island in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. The tower was built in 1600 by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, during his brief period as de facto ruler of Shetland.
3 miNW
Island
Oxna
77 min walk • Oxna is one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra in Shetland, Scotland. Oxna has an area of 68 hectares. The island has been uninhabited since the First World War, but there is a house which is still used as a holiday home. Papa island lies a few hundred metres to the east of Oxna's north coast.
4.9 miSE
Archaeological site
Catpund, Forewick Holm
126 min walk • Catpund is a quarry site in Shetland, Scotland, where steatite vessels were cut from the rock from prehistory onwards. The quarrying marks are still visible today.
4.4 miNE
Village
Scalloway
113 min walk • In addition to its historical attractions, Scalloway boasts a picturesque harbor where visitors can watch traditional fishing boats and yachts bobbing on the crystal-clear waters. The village's maritime heritage is on display at the Shetland Bus Memorial, which...
4.2 miN
Island
Linga
107 min walk • Linga is a small island off Hildasay in the Shetland Islands. It is one of the Scalloway Islands. Haswell-Smith compares Hildasay and the adjacent islands to a yeti's footprint, with Linga as the big toe.
4.5 miN
Island
Hildasay
115 min walk • Hildasay, also known as Hildisay, is an uninhabited island off the west coast of the Shetland Mainland.
2.9 miN
Island
Papa
74 min walk • Papa is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. Papa lies north west of Burra and east of Oxna in the Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891. The last residents left between 1891 and 1930. Most habitation was on the eastern end of the island, the peninsula East Head of Papa.
3.9 miN
Island
Langa
101 min walk • Langa is an uninhabited island off Hildasay, in Shetland, Scotland. It is not to be confused with the numerous islands called "Linga" in Shetland.
2.5 miE
Neighbourhood
South Mainland, Law Ting Holm
63 min walk • The South Mainland of the Shetland Islands is the southern peninsula of Mainland island. It lies south of Hellister. The greater southern part of the peninsula belongs to the civil parish of Dunrossness.
3.2 miNE
Island
Trondra
82 min walk • Trondra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It shelters the harbour of Scalloway and has an area of 275 hectares.