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Unst
Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third largest island in Shetland after the Mainland and Yell. It has an area of .〔
Unst is largely grassland, with coastal cliffs. Its main village is Baltasound, formerly the second largest herring fishing port after Lerwick and now the location of a leisure centre and the island's airport. Other settlements include Uyeasound, home to Greenwell's Booth (a Hanseatic warehouse) and Muness Castle (built in 1598 and sacked by pirates in 1627); and Haroldswick, location of a boat museum and a heritage centre.
==Etymology==
There are three island names in Shetland of unknown and possibly pre-Celtic origin: Unst, Fetlar and Yell. The earliest recorded forms of these three names do carry Norse meanings: ''Fetlar'' is the plural of ''fetill'' and means "shoulder-straps", ''Omstr'' is "corn-stack" and ''í Ála'' is from ''ál '' meaning "deep furrow". However these descriptions are hardly obvious ones as island names and are probably adaptations of a pre-Norse language.〔Gammeltoft (2010) p. 17〕〔Gammeltoft (2010) pp. 19-20〕 This may have been Pictish but there is no clear evidence for this.〔Gammeltoft (2010) p. 9〕〔("Norn" ) Shetlopedia. Retrieved 23 Jan 2011.〕 Taylor (1898) has suggested a derivation from the Old Norse "Ornyst" meaning "eagle's nest".〔Taylor (1898)〕
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