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Shetland is on longitude 01ÂºW of Greenwich and straddles latitude 60ÂºN, 598 miles (962km) north of London and just 400 miles (643km) south of the Arctic Circle. This is as far north as St Petersburg, Russia, or Anchorage, Alaska. Shetlandâs nearest neighbour is Orkney, 50 miles (80km) to the south-west. Norway is just over 200 miles (320km) to the east and the Faroe Islands lie about the same distance away to the north-west. Iceland is only another 300 miles (480km) beyond Faroe, while Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland, is 1,450 miles (2,333km) due west of Shetland.
The Northern Isles are made up of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. While Orkney is a mere six miles from the northern part of Scotland's mainland, it is separated from it by the Pentland Firth, one of the most turbulent parts of water in the British Isles.In general, the Northern Isles comprise the country's most remote islands.urrounded by water, Scotland is bordered by the North Sea on the east, the Atlantic Ocean on the north and west, and the North Channel and the Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, there are 790 islands that make up Scotland.