Yell Sound is the strait running between Yell and Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. It is the boundary between the Mainland and the North Isles and it contains many small islands. Sullom Voe, on the shores of which is a substantial oil terminal, is an arm of Yell Sound.
Yell Sound
Samphrey and the view northwards towards Bigga and Yell
The harbour of Burravoe
Ferry passing Samphrey in 2007
Yell is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a usually resident population of 966. It is the second largest island in Shetland after the Mainland with an area of 82 square miles (212 km2), and is the third most populous in the archipelago, after the Mainland and Whalsay.
As elsewhere in Shetland, and northern Scotland, depopulation has been a serious problem. This is the former settlement of Bouster, whose name suggests a Norse origin
Sheep in south Yell, with Bigga behind
Peat cutting at Ulsta. Deep blanket bog is typical of much of the interior of Yell
The ruins of the broch on the Holm of Copister can clearly be seen in this view from Copister