What is Baltasound?
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name= Baltasound | label_position=left | static_image_name= Main gate for Buness, Baltasound - geograph.org.uk - 969689.jpg | static_image_caption= At the main gate of Buness, Baltasound | country= Scotland | population= | os_grid_reference= HP620089 | latitude= 60.759 | longitude= -0.861 | post_town= SHETLAND | postcode_area= ZE | postcode_district= ZE2 | dial_code= 01957 | constituency_westminster= Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency) | civil_parish= Unst | unitary_scotland= [[Shetland]] | lieutenancy_scotland= [[Shetland]] | constituency_scottish_parliament= Shetland (Scottish Parliament constituency) }} '''Baltasound''' is the largest settlement on the island of Unst in [[Shetland]]. Unst is the most northerly inhabited island in the [[United Kingdom]]. The village lies halfway along the island's east coast on a sheltered bay called Balta Sound. [[File:Baltasoundpo.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Baltasound Post Office, the most northerly in the UK]] Baltasound was formerly the most important [[herring]] port in Shetland, in 1902 its catch exceeded that of the Shetland capital Lerwick. The herring trade declined rapidly after 1905 but the physical remains of the herring boom remained long after.<ref>Hudson, Norman - ''Souvenir Postcards from Shetland'', Shetland Times, 1992</ref> Baltasound was the home of the noted Victorian botanist Thomas Edmondston, who was born at Buness House where his uncle, also called Thomas was the laird. A memorial stone erected outside the house by the elder Thomas Edmondston commemorates scientific studies undertaken there by the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot.<ref>{{cite web|title=Unst, Baltasound, Buness, Memorial Stone|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/203253/details/unst+baltasound+buness+memorial+stone/|work=Canmore|access-date=21 August 2015|archive-date=12 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web