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Symbister is the largest village on the island of Whalsay, Shetland. The focus of the village is the harbour, which is home to small fishing boats as well as large deep sea trawlers. The village is overlooked by the granite mansion Symbister House, built by the Sixth Robert Bruce of Symbister in 1823.
The Pier House, now a museum, was once the centre for the export of dried and salted fish to the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over much of Northern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. The population in 1991 was 797.
A ferry to Laxo on the Shetland mainland operates from Symbister.
The Pier House, now a museum, was once the centre for the export of dried and salted fish to the Hanseatic League, an alliance of trading guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly over much of Northern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries. The population in 1991 was 797.
A ferry to Laxo on the Shetland mainland operates from Symbister.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbister
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Coordinates: 60°20'36"N 1°1'1"W
- Burravoe 19 km
- Roesund 23 km
- Clothan 24 km
- West Sandwick 29 km
- Mid Yell 29 km
- Walls 33 km
- Sandness 37 km
- Uyeasound 40 km
- Cullivoe 43 km
- Baltasound 47 km
- Pier House Museum 0.5 km
- Whalsay Boating Club 0.7 km
- The Outer Islands Shetlands 2.2 km
- Whalsay 3.1 km
- Whalsay Airstrip 6.2 km
- East Linga 7.2 km
- Grif Skerry 8.7 km
- Shetland 12 km
- Out Skerries 17 km