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Fitful Head is a 283-metre-high (928 ft) headland at the southwest corner of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation served by a restricted access vehicular track which ascends from the hamlet of to the east. There are numerous islets and sea stacks at the foot of the 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) stretch of cliffs which form the coast here. The area is known for its breeding bonxies.

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  • Fitful Head is a 283-metre-high (928 ft) headland at the southwest corner of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation served by a restricted access vehicular track which ascends from the hamlet of to the east. There are numerous islets and sea stacks at the foot of the 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) stretch of cliffs which form the coast here. The summit and eastern slopes are formed from Neoproterozoic (late Precambrian) age metamorphic rocks assigned to the , which is placed within the and equates with the Southern Highland Group of the Dalradian suite of rocks of mainland Scotland. The steep cliffs dropping down to the sea are formed mostly from a silica-poor igneous intrusion, itself subject to metamorphism. The upper eastern slopes have a cover of peat. The area is known for its breeding bonxies. Just beneath the clifftop is a cave known as Thief's House, reckoned to be the spot referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his 1821 novel The Pirate, where "Norma of the Fitful Head" lived. (en)
  • Fitful Head är en udde i Storbritannien. Den ligger i rådsområdet Shetlandsöarna och riksdelen Skottland, i den norra delen av landet, 900 km norr om huvudstaden London. Fitful Head ligger på ön Shetland Islands. Terrängen inåt land är platt österut, men åt nordost är den kuperad. Havet är nära Fitful Head åt sydväst. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 228 meter över havet, 1,0 km norr om Fitful Head. Närmaste större samhälle är Sandwick, 13,4 km nordost om Fitful Head. (sv)
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  • Fitful Head är en udde i Storbritannien. Den ligger i rådsområdet Shetlandsöarna och riksdelen Skottland, i den norra delen av landet, 900 km norr om huvudstaden London. Fitful Head ligger på ön Shetland Islands. Terrängen inåt land är platt österut, men åt nordost är den kuperad. Havet är nära Fitful Head åt sydväst. Den högsta punkten i närheten är 228 meter över havet, 1,0 km norr om Fitful Head. Närmaste större samhälle är Sandwick, 13,4 km nordost om Fitful Head. (sv)
  • Fitful Head is a 283-metre-high (928 ft) headland at the southwest corner of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northwest of the island's southernmost point at Sumburgh Head. Its summit is crowned by a trig point adjacent to a NATS installation served by a restricted access vehicular track which ascends from the hamlet of to the east. There are numerous islets and sea stacks at the foot of the 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) stretch of cliffs which form the coast here. The area is known for its breeding bonxies. (en)
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