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Northern Isles

British  

plural noun

  1. Orkney and Shetland

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Spare a thought for those in the Northern Isles, Scotland, where it's only going to reach 13C.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

The warning affects north and north-east Scotland and covers the Northern Isles, Hebrides, Angus, Perth and Kinross and parts of Argyll and Bute.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

The Met Office amber warning said frequent, occasionally heavy snow showers would affect the Northern Isles and northwest Scotland, creating possible blizzard conditions.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024

Ticket prices on the Northern Isles, Clyde and Hebrides ferry networks will be held at current levels from October until March 2024.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2023

It might have been heard not only in Scandinavia and the Northern Isles, but in a great part of the British Islands, in Normandy, in Russia—along the river-road that ran to Constantinople—and in Constantinople itself.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

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