Talk:List of Shetland islands

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[edit] Smaller Isles

The fact that there are about 300 islands in Shetland, including the small skerries and stacks named by the Ordnance Survey (cf. List of Orkney islands) creates a number of unanticipated issues. For example, there may be more effective ways to group the islands, especially those lying off the Mainland. Given the relatively long coastlines in the groups, listing them alphabetically means they may not be so easy to find. The repetitive nature of some of the names, and the disambiguation issues they may create does not make things easier. I also confess to a lack of detailed local knowledge that might help to iron out spelling errors, confusion of peninsulas and islands, and perhaps above all, the fact that there are at least 100 unnamed islands and stacks not included in the list. With the wisdom of hindsight doubling the number of mainland sections might have been useful. However, if a visitor unfamiliar with Shetland should imagine that this large collection of islands is over-doing things and that many of them are surely mere rocks a passer-by might hardly notice, I suggest they visit some of the photograph collections available e.g. Dore Holm or Moo Stack. If some of these unheralded islets were in the southern half of the UK, or even anywhere near the more populous regions of Scotland, they might well be national landmarks. Ben MacDui (Talk) 15:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)