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,
Linga Sound, Shetland A lighthouse on Suther Ness below Brough stands at the northern entrance into Linga Sound. Citations Sources Linga Sound, Shetland Linga Sound is the strait between the islands of Whalsay and West Linga in the Shetland islands of Scotland. The sound has a depth of . The narrowest width is between the contours. The sound is the channel most often used by large vessels. The tidal stream running south through the sound starts about four and a half hours before high water at Lerwick, and the stream starts running north about two hours after high water at Lerwick. The maximum