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There are many islands bordering the Scotia Sea including South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, and Bouvet Island.
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Walter Sutherland (died 1850) was the last man to speak 'Norn', a now extinct Germanic language spoken only in the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland.
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The city of Twatt in the Shetland Islands featured at no. 4 of the most vulgar sounding names in "Rude Britain", a book of British place names with seemingly rude or offensive meaning.
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The King of Norway, short on cash but eager to have his daughter wed to the Scottish King to reduce tensions, put the Shetland and Orkney islands up as collateral on her dowry in 1469. He never paid so the islands were surrendered to Scotland.
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The day after the Shetland viking festival "Up Helly Aa" is an annual holiday, to allow the islanders to recover from partying.
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The Shetland Islands celebrate the end of winter by dressing up as Vikings and burning a galley in a festival called Up Helly Aa.
