Up Helly Aa from Upholiday, the lowland Scots word for Twelfth Day, and was brought by them to the Shetland Islands in the 19th century. There is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl". There is a committee which a person must be part of for 15 years before one can be a jarl, and only one person is elected to this committee each year. The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley. The event happens all over Shetland and is currently celebrated at ten locations – Scalloway, Lerwick, Nesting and Girlsta, Uyeasound, Northmavine, Bressay,
Pyramid Island, South Shetland Islands Pyramid Island, South Shetland Islands Pyramid Island is a conspicuous, pillar-shaped rocky island rising to off the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its surface area is . "Cone Rock" <br>() is rising to south of the island, <br> north-northwest of Meade Islands, northeast of Williams Point and <br> east of Koshava Island, Zed Islands. The vicinity of Pyramid Island was visited on 19 February 1819 during the discovery of the South Shetlands by Captain William Smith in the British brig "Williams", and later by early 19th century sealers. Both the island and the rock