What on Earth are the Orkney, Shetland & Faroe Islands?

[@ThatsNotVeryFunnyLol]

These are all such beautiful areas, especially the Faroe Islands. Absolutely incredible. Any time I see content involving the Faroes, I always have to look at it.

[@robthetraveler1099]

Missed an opportunity to talk about the Nordic history of the Orkneys and Shetlands - how they were both settled/conquered by the Vikings and belonged to Norway for centuries, and spoke the Norse-derived Norn language until it went extinct some centuries ago.

[@ythanshaw]

@robthetraveler1099 please don’t say ‘the Orkneys’ or ‘the Shetlands’. Either (the) Shetland islands or just Shetland (same for Orkney)

[@jw362]

@@robthetraveler1099 I understand that in the 12th Century, the King of Scotland married the King of Norway’s daughter. He secured her dowry with the Orkneys. When he then didn’t come up with the cash, the Orkneys became Scottish.

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Its a geography video, not history

[@carsongambaro]

I’ve always wanted to go to the Faroe Islands. They strike me as a smaller, volcano-less Iceland with just as interesting geography.

[@jw362]

Just visited both. Though much smaller, Torshavn is a lot more picturesque than the more urban Reykjavik.

[@michaelmaffei3988]

Im scottish by herihtage . Ive been loving the shetland foever i think i cud live there.

[@tomhammond3495]

Visited all 3. Absolutely amazing places. I'd say the Faroes is the nicest but also the most expensive to visit. Their football culture is amazing. They have the highest number of people per capita watching their team on a regular basis than any other country in UEFA. I preferred Shetland to Orkney personally. When i went to Orkney the Westray to Papa Westray flight was cancelled due to the weather annoyingly.

[@sidkings]

@1:18, the village of Twatt

[@kallebirgersson710]

Sounds like paradise or what

[@randallross420]

If that city wasn't part of the UK i'd be shocked, they use that word so well up there :)

[@sidkings]

@@randallross420 In British English, it means Idiot. In American English I believe it means something very different. 😬

[@randallross420]

@@sidkings Yeah it means a woman's nether regions here :)

[@pedanticradiator1491]

​@@randallross420 it has both meanings in the UK

[@mysteriousDSF]

The Orkney and Shetland islands have a Celtic identity heavily influenced by Nordic and the Faroe islands have a Nordic identity heavily influenced by Celtic. Faroese speech is really distinct with it's Celtic sounding R (the same as in English, which also took it from Celtic), not found in any other Nordic languages.

[@sausagedogs100]

what do you mean by celtic identity?

[@bencook1068]

And what do you mean by ‘Celtic-sounding R’?

[@MartieD]

@@mysteriousDSFExcept the people of Orkney and Shetland speak English, not any Celtic language whatsoever. My guess is that their identities are more rooted in the Islands themselves.

[@mysteriousDSF]

@@MartieD definitely with heavy Nordic / Viking influences

[@MrDermases]

​@MartieD around 200 years ago Shetlanders and the Faroese could understand each other in their respective languages. There are stil a few words used in Shetland that come from the north.

[@andreluizazevedo479]

very informative and straightforward, great video!

[@DarwinskiYT]

I went to John o' Groats once, which is the most Northeastern part of the mainland UK (like Landsend but actually worth visiting). From there the Orkney Island of Stroma is just a stone's throw away. Unfortunately, due to Covid restrictions, we couldn’t go to Orkney. Would love to visit one day

[@ianyoung6881]

Orkney and Shetland are not north of Scotland, they are both part of Scotland. You don’t leave Scotland when you go to Shetland- you’re still in Scotland.

[@markleon411]

It might be better to say, north of the Scottish mainland.

[@Dankfort]

Pedantic

[@OssianLore]

Accurate

[@A190xx]

@@Dankfort Pedantic is an adjective to describe a noun, which was not included, so perhaps you meant to say, "pedant"? 😋

[@colinmacdonald5732]

@@ianyoung6881 Some folks in those islands will disagree with you. Certainly support for Scottish nationalism is much less than on the Scottish mainland. I think especially on Shetland, where it's a 12 hour ferry crossing to Scotland a lot of folk won't feel particularly Scottish.

[@revinhatol]

Orkney and Shetland once speak a sister language to Icelandic, Faroese, and even Norwegian. That language is called "Norn".

[@Siansonea]

Sounds like the Faroe Islands are the clear winner here.

[@andyallan2909]

That's because they have control of their own economy and are not subject to foreign (English) control, unlike Scotland.

[@juxtaposition8803]

Def the Faroe Islands i would live there any day

[@EM0tZ3]

Wonderful places, I'd love to visit them one day.

[@diannehardwick950]

I enjoyed this but in the beginning you promised some historical information. In case people didn’t notice, I would add that my visit to the Orkneys showed me a place so rich in history and its monuments so evident that they would be hard to miss. Definitely worth a visit.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Denmark is a member of EU, but Faroe Islands and Greenland are NOT 👍

[@markleon411]

Although I'd love to visit all three, I think Orkney takes the prize for me. The quietest of them all.

[@Brian-bp5pe]

I would love to visit any/all of these, but the Faroe Islands seem to be pulling me the strongest of the three.

[@anthonydavid5121]

The elusive Shetland Palm .... gorgeous trees found all along the beaches on all the Shetland Islands.

[@deeptoot1453]

Greay video! Just one thing, Paris doesn't get extremely hot summers😂, it gets the occasional heat wave mainly due to recent climate change but summers generally speaking are rather mild.

[@LordHeath1972]

4:06 - there is a place called Twatt? 🤣

[@alanbudge]

Showed a picture of Neist Point on Skye 5:15 when talking about Shetland.

[@timothyyetter7830]

There’s a town there called “Twatt”. Wonder how that name came about.

[@ontheroadagainwithvinny931]

I've been fortunate to visit all three and they are interesting and beautiful. At 1:59 both airports are positioned incorrectly on the map - that flight would be all of 5 minutes! The flight from Westray to Papa Westray is c90 seconds across the shortest points between the islands.

[@stanleybuchan4610]

Wow amazing. Scottish islands where the main religion is Church of Scotland. Who'd have thought!

[@william-uc2oy]

The Faroe Islands are part of the realm. The realm is Denmark, Greenland, and Faroe Islands. They’re autonomous but helped financially by Denmark.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Du har sendt The Faroe Islands are a self-governing nation under the external sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark. Faroe Islands have exclusive competence to legislate and govern independently in a wide range of areas. These include for example the conservation and management of living marine resources, protection of the environment, sub-surface resources, trade, taxation, industrial relations, energy, transport, communications, social security, culture, education and research.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Danmark giver nu ca 500 millioner kroner om året, fordi Færingerne har skåret bloktilskuddet ned, men nu vil de købe deres egnet luftrum som Danmark tjener op til 270 millioner kroner på om året, og hvad med de ca 70 milliarder kroner Danmark har tjent på deres Nato raderbase under den kolde krig. Færingerne kan sagtens klare sig selv og det er det de vil,.De har et højere BNP pr indbygger en Danmark, UK, og blandt de højeste i Europa.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Denmark now gives approx. 500 million kroner a year because the Faroes have cut the block grant, but now they want to buy their suitable airspace which Denmark earns up to 270 million kroner per year, and what about the approx. 70 billion kroner Denmark has earned from their Nato radar base during the Cold War. The Faroese can easily fend for themselves and that is what they want. They have a higher GDP per capita than Denmark, the UK, and among the highest in Europe.

[@william-uc2oy]

@@TheRedBaronHP Tak

[@garymacdonald7165]

Faroes are the most spectacular but isolated! Shetland and Orkney are closer to other mainlands e.g. Norway and Scotland!

[@garymacdonald7165]

@@TheRedBaronHP Are you serious? Have a look at your Google map!

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Faroe Islands have their own airline, Atlantic Airways which flies directly to Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Edinburgh, London, Paris, Barcalona, ​​Mallorca, Alicante, Gran Canaria, New York.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

@@garymacdonald7165 About 350 km to the Faroe Islands, Norway 450 km.

[@andyallan2909]

Certainly easier to get to Scotland from Orkney or Shetland, as you're already there (they are part of Scotland).

[@MENSA.lady2]

I did a tour of duty in the RAF at Saxa Vord on the Island of Unst in the Shetlands. Wet and windy but great fun and about as far north as you can get.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

RAF also lands on Faroe Islands with their large aircrafts, and American nuclear submarines are using the Faroese harbors.

[@rapidthrash1964]

You should talk about the Channel Islands

[@bnthern]

WELL PRESENTED

[@MateoQuixote]

It's my dream to visit all 3

[@kdc1899]

In well-developed countries, even the people in the farthest islands also live decently. This is unlike poor countries wherein the farthest islands are also the poorest in the country.

[@AbigailGerlach-zt1sh]

I wouldn't mind living in Kirkwall. It's a nice town with friendly people.

[@depekthegreat359]

I fully like all the respective places which you have mentioned despite Faroe Islands being a country and I do hope to visit all these respective countries if given a chance,good friends!!!LONG LIVES RESPECTIVELY TO ALL THESE RESPECTIVE PLACES!!!👍

[@duneideann9241]

Orkney and Shetland belong to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@stevewaterhouse3025]

very cool video folks !

[@canuckterrier]

You've got Westray airport in completely the wrong place. That flight would take considerably more than 90 seconds. In reality you are in the air for about a minute. Papa Westray is a lovely place - both Orkney and Shetland are beautiful in a rugged sort of way with very friendly welcoming people and some of the best whisky in Scotland

[@RealFilipKetil]

And they all used to belong to Norway :(

[@planetarystargazer]

What If Hawaii and Africa switched places

[@jacor653]

I'm sure a lot of people would die.

[@BreadLobby]

Thatd make the suez canal finally run smoothly

[@dsxa918]

Would you rather fight an indeterminate number of cassowaries or five double-size cassowaries?

[@ronrichardson3103]

You can understand the people of Orkney and Shetland ate not terrifically fond of the SNP when they see them buying camper vans and such.

[@suevialania]

👍🇫🇴Faroe Islands🇬🇧

[@tjg750]

Are you trying to say that they’re owned by the UK?

[@suevialania]

@@tjg750 No! But better if they are a state member of UK like Wales, Ulster, Scotland and England than an colony of Danemark!By the way, Faroe Islands have more in common with Iceland and Norway! Danemark have more in common with Sweden and Germany!

[@freeflownation]

Been to the Shetland Islands and to the Faroe Islands and honestly I think these places are quite boring. Only thing I loved doing there was rockclimbing on the cliffs and cliffjumping. But obviously you dont have to go there in order to do that. Love the town name "Twatt" on the Shetlands though. 😂

[@thephoenix3155]

Scotland is genetically half Celtic and Norse.

[@richardb3363]

The area figures given were incorrect. He kept saying ' km squared ' when it should have been ' square km ' These are very different Eg. 1,000km squared = 1,000,000 square km This repeated error is disappointing on a geography video.

[@zeljkodebeljko8767]

@@richardb3363 for time being. Do they want to be part of Norway?

[@22carmoon]

I didn’t realize there was a place called ‘Twatt’ in the Shetland islands 😂

[@illumenumgd]

you should play some geography games like geoguesser

[@tdyerwestfield]

But why do these islands exist exactly? I imagine ancient volcanic activity, certainly not currently volcanic.

[@ythanshaw]

I’m not an expert in geology but not we (Shetland) is mostly sandstone (at least my island is), whatever that means for creation

[@tdyerwestfield]

@@ythanshaw Scottish Highlands used to be part of a long volcanic ridge with the Appalachians, in what is now USA, which were once together as one, so my guess would be the islands are remnants from that around 200 million years ago. Depends how old the land is. Could just have formed from ancient fluvial deposits pre ice age, but I think the islands are older than that.

[@ythanshaw]

@@tdyerwestfield ah ok that’s interesting, I knew Scotland used to be ‘connected’ to NA. I’ve seen some mentions of Shetland being the leftover of a mountain range - which makes sense to me if you’ve seen the topography of Shetland. w.r.t. ice age I’m very confident that the isles are older than ice age as you say

[@Zaid-t2f]

I want video about antarctica territory australia please

[@KnightDarkness-bv1ei]

Wait there is a town called Twatt on the island?

[@ythanshaw]

There’s a Twatt in both Orkney and Shetland!

[@Zaid-t2f]

I want video about geography australia please

[@Snowcrockimpors]

shetland is nordic ?

[@yadgar1969]

About the closest one can get to the Subantarctic islands on the Northern hemisphere... except perhaps for the Aleutians!

[@Bernieo153]

Fun fact about the Faroe Islands: The Faroes have produced ONE Nobel Prize winner. Ever. That puts the Faroe Islands at number one in the world for Nobel Prize winner per capita 😂

[@MENSA.lady2]

Why did you use a library clip of Copenhagen and claim it is in the Faroes ?

[@Escapee5931]

1000 kilometres square is not the same as 1000 square kilometres!

[@NoamChompsky-ob5te]

The "lines"on the flags represent a Cross as you know

[@DarwinskiYT]

The Faroe Islands are the home of Tanic The Hedgehog 🦔 🧡

[@telestotrojan]

🇫🇴Faroe islands

[@theknightswhosay]

>Sand as white as you’d find anywhere on the planet >Shows yellow sand

[@KaleemMyster]

Man I have to watch this at 1.25x

[@informer3000]

It's Tors-havn!

[@Rotowhaka]

On my bucket list to go to Shetland and Orkney islands Not that fussed about a place that still hunts and clubs to death Complete pods of pilot whales

[@TheRedBaronHP]

No one in the Faroe Islands goes out to hunt whales, Iceland, Norway and Japan do.

[@TheRealRedAce]

They're Islands. It's kind of in the name.

[@anneUT1]

Where were you educated?

[@iwthswlosl]

What are they, they are groups of islands in the North Atlantic not rocket science.😂

[@SantaFe19484]

Do you Shetland ponies come from the Shetland Islands?

[@pedanticradiator1491]

That is where they were first bred

[@jamesknight6890]

Faroe Islands should be part of the UK not Denmark, I get that historically they are more danish and Scandinavian but it makes no sense that they are ruled by a tiny country with no ability to actually defend them. They are closer to the United Kingdom, the UK has more means to defend them and it it’s makes sense for them to join a larger neighbour.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

We are Norwegian, not Danish.

[@ImtiesAhamadSiam2002]

Faroe Island must be Independent Country.

[@TheRedBaronHP]

The Faroe Islands are a self-governing nation under the external sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark. Faroe Islands have exclusive competence to legislate and govern independently in a wide range of areas. These include for example the conservation and management of living marine resources, protection of the environment, sub-surface resources, trade, taxation, industrial relations, energy, transport, communications, social security, culture, education and research.

[@mikesands4681]

7:01 so the Faroese use the Danish Kroner which Denmark doesn't use anymore (euros).

[@LeeKelly-dj4rf]

Denmark doesn’t use the euro, it still uses the Danish Krone you can fact check if you want I’ll wait..

[@busouting]

Denmark has the euro op-out therefore it doesn't use the Euro. The UK had the same opt-out when it was an EU member.

[@busouting]

@@LeeKelly-dj4rf True

[@ES-hr6vg]

Um, islands.

[@johnledingham852]

I'd like to live in the Orkneys as it's closest to the equator.

[@rogerc7960]

Vikings did it

[@AVEXentSUCKS]

I do not like your delivery. You assume your audience is completely clueless about geography you talk to us like we are children. I will make sure your videos are no longer recommended on my feed.

[@GeffreyKane]

Whale murders!

[@andyallan2909]

Orkney and Shetland do not belong to the UK. They are part of Scotland and therefore, in Scots Law, they belong to the people of Scotland. This is because, in Scotland, under Scots law, the people are sovereign, NOT parliament (as English commentators keep telling us). Hence the official title of, 'King (or Queen) of Scots', not 'of Scotland'. Adherence to Scots law was guaranteed under the terms of the Act Of Union (although the UK has run roughshod over this on a number of occasions (when it seemed to be in England's best interests). You're incorrect about the main source of income in Shetland. That would be income from oil, although UK Government figures make no mention of this, or the 'tax take' they get from oil, in any calculations concerning Scotland as this would hugely undermine their position of how an independent Scotland couldn't survive economically.

[@jamesknight6890]

Still banging on about independence? Don’t you realise pro independence parties decisively lost in the general election and lt wasn’t even close. Pro uk parties you 70% of the vote share and remember the election was touted as a de facto independence referendum and you lost (again). The islands in question belong to Scotland but because Scotland is an integral part of the United Kingdom (and always will be) they belong to the United Kingdom as well. Actually the Orkney and Shetland islands are one of the most pro uk parts of Scotland and have consistently rejected the SNP, I’ve also heard of deep dissatisfaction on the islands for the Scottish administration and many on the islands either want their own devolved government or to become a UK crown dependency. Typical Scottish nationalists, so hateful of people who live on the southern half of our island, hate never wins by the way.

[@thekidfromiowa]

Twatt 😂

[@thejoeyjason]

it's OCEANIA not OCEANA!!!

[@robertmion6741]

shetland only 80 km from orkneys,,, wow no way!!!! makes we worry about othee inaccuracies

[@ythanshaw]

It is about 80 km from North Ronaldsay in Orkney to Sumburgh head, the southernmost point of Shetland Mainland. In reality the distance between the 2 island groups is more like 45 km due to Fair Isle (my island!) being roughly between North Ronaldsay and Sumburgh but being a part of Shetland. The distance between Orkney Mainland and Shetland Mainland is roughly 130 km

[@vincenthaegebaert1854]

No thank you.

[@DanielF-ty3sb]

They need a McDonald's!

[@TheRedBaronHP]

Faroe Islands have something better, Burger King

[@timsimmons5190]

Omg I hate when yall use Celsius. I don't know it or kilometers at all and to stubborn to learn lol America America America 😂

[@robertw4265]

Perhaps you could give us a description of your belly-button? You seem to spend your life navel-gazing ...

[@mycrazyfamilyid]

@@timsimmons5190 Google "# km to miles". You have the world's knowledge in your hand. Make use of it!

[@robertfoulkes1832]

Yer USA is just one dumb country that insists on using different outdated measurements than almost every other country in the world. The internet is for the whole world. So I wonder what measurements are most likely to get used across the internet?

[@johnm6295]

Orkney and Shetland *are* Scotland.

[@illumenumgd]

you should play some geography games like geoguesser