Exploring Shetland Place-Names - Digital Map Demo
Tuesday, December 9th 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Learning Room, Shetland Museum & Archives
This event is also on at the following times:
Thu, 11/12/2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Free drop-in sessions - all welcome.
From 2001 to 2017, Shetland Amenity Trust worked with individuals and community groups across the isles to record local place-names - many of which had never appeared on maps before but had been passed down orally for generations.
More than 12,000 names have now been added to digital maps, with more still to verify, standardise, and include. We’re now looking to share this resource more widely and gather your views on how the information should be presented and searched.
This December, we’re hosting two demonstration sessions at Shetland Museum & Archives, where you can explore the developing place-names map and learn how the information has been gathered and organised.
During the sessions, you’ll also be able to look through locally used names that haven’t appeared on maps before, see examples of features such as baas, lochs, rigs and noosts, and find out more about the meanings of key place-name elements.
Category: Community Events, Tours and Demonstrations
