Trondra

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 .

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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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Population: 135
Area: 275
Image: The Trondra Bridge.jpg
Width: 1
Length: 5

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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.