Noss
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Noss is a small island in Shetland, Scotland, uninhabited since 1939. The island has been a National Nature Reserve since 1955 and is a sheep farm. It is linked to the island of Bressay by a seasonal ferry service, run by the wildlife wardens using a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. The main focus of settlement on Noss is around the low lying westside of the island at Gungstie (Old Norse: a landing place). Gungstie was built in the 1670s and is currently used by the seasonal wildlife wardens. Another settlement at Setter, on the south east of the island was inhabited until the 1870s and now lies derelict.
Attractions on Noss include a visitor centre, the Pony Pund built to breed Shetland Ponies, the Holm of Noss rock and the Noup cliff surrounded by gannets, puffins, guillemots, shags, razorbills, fulmars and great skuas.