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  1. Port in Shetland, Scotland; population (1985)
  2. 8,000. It is the administrative headquarters
  3. of Shetland. Main occupations include fishing
  4. and oil. Hand-knitted shawls are a
  5. speciality. A Viking tradition survives in
  6. the Jan festival of Up-Helly-Aa when a
  7. replica of a longship is burned.
  8.