Whalsay shown within Shetland Islands

Whalsay is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of more than 1000 people. The island is fertile and fairly densely populated, with crofting taking second place to fishing as the main local industries.

The main settlement on the island is Symbister , where the fishing fleet is based and from where ferries sail to Laxo and Vidlin on the Shetland Mainland. The island also has an airstrip.

Attractions on the island include two Bronze Age houses, Benie Hoose and Yorie Biggins , and the settlement of Sodom where Hugh MacDiarmid lived in the 1930s and early 1940s.