Fetlar, Shetland - Ripple Stone at Leagarth - standing stone - local postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Fetlar, Shetland Isles
• Publisher:  Fetlar Community Enterprises, Shetland
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Fetlar is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland, with a population of 86 at the time of the 2001 census.^[1] Its main settlement is Houbie on the south coast, home to the Fetlar Interpretive Centre. Fetlar is the fourth largest island of Shetland and has an area of sixteen square miles.

One of the strange features of Fetlar is a huge wall that goes across the island known as the Funzie Girt or Finnigirt Dyke.^[5] It is thought to date from the Mesolithic period. So sharp was the division between the two halves of the island, that the Norse talked of East and West Isle separately. One posited etymology is from fetill, meaning a ""strap"", so possibly the island's name means ""two islands strapped together"". It was recorded as ""Fötilør"" in 1490.^[2]

Another attraction on the island is the Gothic Brough Lodge, built by Arthur Nicolson in about 1820, and which is undergoing restoration by the Brough Lodge Trust.^[6] The Fetlar sheepdog trials take place annually, normally in July. The Fetlar Foy is very popular with Shetlanders and tourists alike. It takes place at midsummer on the Links at Tresta where folk are entertained with music, food and drink.^[7]

Its most famous son was Sir William Watson Cheyne Bt FRS FRCS, a close associate of Lord Lister and one of the pioneers of antiseptics. He was professor of surgery at King's College London, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and wrote many books on medical treatments. He was made a baronet for services to medicine in 1908, was an MP first for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews and then the Combined Scottish Universities in 1917 and 1918. He was Lord Lieutenant of the Shetland Islands from 1919 to 1930. Cheyne died on Fetlar on 19 April 1932.

Fetlar has a very complex geology, including gneiss in the west, metamorphosed gabbro and phyllite, and kaolin. There is also antigorite and steatite here. Talc was mined here.^[2]

Fetlar is surrounded by a number of small islands, particularly in the sound between it and Unst. These include to the north:

• Daaey
• Haaf Gruney
• Sound Gruney
• Urie Lingey
• Uyea

and to the west:

• Hascosay
• Linga

It is separated from Hascosay and Yell by Colgrave Sound. Much further to the south are the Out Skerries and Whalsay.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

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period=1945 - present

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