North Roe

North Roe
—  Village  —
North Roe Location in Scotland
Coordinates: 60°35′19″N 1°20′03″W / 60.588746°N 1.334286°W / 60.588746; -1.334286Coordinates: 60°35′19″N 1°20′03″W / 60.588746°N 1.334286°W / 60.588746; -1.334286
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Country	Scotland
Region	Shetland
postcode	ZE2 9
Area code(s)	GB-ZET

North Roe is a village, and protected area at the northern tip in the large Northmavine peninsula of the Mainland of Shetland, Scotland. It is a small village, with a school with less than a dozen pupils in 2011.^[1] North Roe is internationally recognised wetland site, and it is protected under the terms of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.^[2][3][4] The village is crossed by the A970 road, a single-carrigway road from south to north of Shetland Islands, and it is also the home of a Potez 840 plane.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ "North Roe Primary School". northroe.shetland.sch.uk. http://www.northroe.shetland.sch.uk/. 
2. ^ "The Annotated Ramsar List: United Kingdom". The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. 2009-09-05. http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-documents-list-annotated-ramsar-15868/main/ramsar/1-31-218%5E15868_4000_0__. 
3. ^ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in Scotland". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-1391. 
4. ^ "RAMSAR sites". Scottish Natural Heritage. http://www.snh.gov.uk/protecting-scotlands-nature/protected-areas/international-designations/ramsar-sites/.