Trondra
Sign in to saveTrondra 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 .
Key facts
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Shetland
- Scottish island.caption
- Trondra shown within Shetland
- Scottish island.GridReference
- HU398371
- Scottish island.norse name
- Uncertain
- Scottish island.meaning of name
- Possibly 'boar island' or from the personal name Þrondr
- Scottish island.area rank
- 90=
- Scottish island.Population
- 152
- Scottish island.population rank
- 39
- Scottish island.population density
- 55.3 people/km2
- Scottish island.island group
- Shetland
- Scottish island.local authority
- Shetland Islands
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Scalloway Islands
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Shetland Islands
- Population
- 135
- Area
- 275
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- The Trondra Bridge.jpg
- Width
- 1
- Length
- 5
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- Commons category
- Trondra
- located in/on physical feature
- Shetland Islands
- historic county
- Shetland Islands
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Geology
- Wildlife
- Leisure activities
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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 .
==History== Trondra was becoming rapidly depopulated until 1970, when road bridges were built to neighbouring Burra (West and East) and to the southern peninsula of the Shetland Mainland. Since then the population has recovered from a low of 20 in 1961.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Trondra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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