Every January , the inhabitants of Lerwick on the Shetland Islands burn a full-size replica of what ?
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,
Lerwick of January every year. There are several churches in Lerwick, including: In the nineteenth century there were more churches in Lerwick including a Free Church on South Hill Head. Lerwick Lerwick (; Scottish Gaelic: "Liùrabhaig", Norwegian: "Leirvik") is the main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7000 residents in 2010 and is the third-largest island settlement in Scotland. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland and on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland, Lerwick lies north-by-northeast of Aberdeen; west of the similarly sheltered port of Bergen in Norway;