Lerwick

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Lerwick

Total population

6,709

Coordinates60.15°, -1.14°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Lerwick is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. It is the northernmost major settlement within the United Kingdom.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Aly Bain

Scottish fiddler

Arthur Anderson

businessman (1792-1868)

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Ron Mathewson

British jazz musician, bass player (1944-2020)

Robert Stout

New Zealand politician and surveyor (1844-1930)

Robert Hamilton

British civil servant, Governor of Tasmania (1836–1895)

Ian Bairnson

Scottish musician, guitarist (1953–2023)

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Alison Fairlie

British scholar of French literature (1917-1993)

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Arthur Edmondston

Scottish physician and writer (1776-1841)

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Dorothea Primrose Campbell

Scottish poet, novelist, teacher (1793-1863)

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Herbert John Clifford Grierson

British scholar (1866–1960)

Isaac Cowie

Canadian politician (1848-1917)

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Jock Tait

Scottish cricketer (1886-1945)

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Margaret Chalmers

Scottish poet

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Peter MacDougall

British WWI flying ace (1898-1955)

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Philadelphus Bain Fraser

Presbyterian minister, controversialist, editor (1862–1940)

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Rhoda Bulter

Shetland author (1929–1994)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Scotland

• Ham
  1.4 mi away
• Burwick
  5.2 mi away
• Wirlie
  13.3 mi away
• Saeter
  13.7 mi away
• Saltness
  13.9 mi away
• North Park
  14.2 mi away
• Norrendal
  14.3 mi away
• Vaivoe
  16.8 mi away
• Newgord
  40.7 mi away
• Valsgarth
  45.8 mi away
• Skeggie
  45.8 mi away
• Northdale
  46.2 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Lerwick

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers