Voe, Northmavine

Voe is a settlement on the Northmavine peninsula of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland.[1] It is at the head of Ronas Voe and just off the A970 road.

Voe

Voe at the head of Ronas Voe, Northmavine
Voe
Location within Shetland
OS grid referenceHU333811
Civil parish
Council area
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSHETLAND
Postcode districtZE2
Dialling code01806
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament

Notes
  1. Including whale oil, manure, baleen, and in the case of Norrona, meat meal and bone meal[9]

References
  1. Gazetter for Scotland.
  2. Gustafsson 2019, p. 109.
  3. HEARD - Whaling 2006.
  4. Shetland Museum & Archives.
  5. Haldane 1904, p. 74-77.
  6. Tønnessen & Johnsen 1982, p. 89.
  7. Gray 2014.
  8. Murton 2019, p. 113.
  9. Johnson 2015, p. 19.

Sources
  • Gray, Alan (15 July 2014). Bevington, Pete (ed.). "Whaling station research". Shetland News. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  • Gustafsson, Ulf Ingemar (2019). Icebound fronters of explotation: Networks for whaling in the Polar regions, 1904-1931 (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Groningen. p. 109. hdl:11370/6715a46a-a130-4e6b-9e34-8b9038c9a062. ISBN 978-94-034-1527-7.
  • Haldane, R. C. (1904). Harvie-Brown, J. A.; Trail, James W. H.; Clarke, William Eagle (eds.). "Whaling in Shetland". The annals of Scottish natural history. David Douglas. 50: 74–77. OCLC 805938354 – via archive.org.
  • Johnson, Laureen (2015). Shetland's whaling tradition from Willafjord to Enderby Land. Smith, James C., Shetland ex-Whalers Association. Lerwick: The Shetland Times Ltd. pp. 12–20. ISBN 9780955778421. OCLC 941068842.
  • Murton, Paul (10 October 2019). The Viking Isles: Travels in Orkney and Shetland. Birlinn. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-78885-228-9.
  • Tønnessen, Johan Nicolay; Johnsen, Arne Odd (1 January 1982). The History of Modern Whaling. Translated by Christophersen, R. I. University of California Press. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9780520039735. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  • "HEARD Hillswick Eshaness Area Regeneration and Development - Our History, Whaling". www.heard.shetland.co.uk. 2006. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  • "Overview of Voe". Scottish Places. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  • "Ronas Voe whaling station". Shetland Museum and Archives Photo Library. Retrieved 17 March 2020.

Shetland Museum & Archives - photographs of the whaling stations.

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