Bousta

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{{Infobox UK place

|country = Scotland

|static_image_name= Shoreline at Bousta - geograph.org.uk - 1300278.jpg

|static_image_caption= The shoreline at Bousta

|coordinates = {{coord|60.302|-1.599|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Bousta

|label_position= top

|population =

|civil_parish= Walls and Sandness

|unitary_scotland= Shetland

|lieutenancy_scotland= Shetland

|constituency_westminster= Orkney and Shetland

|constituency_scottish_parliament= Shetland

|post_town= SHETLAND

|postcode_district = ZE2

|postcode_area= ZE

|dial_code= 01595

|os_grid_reference= HU221575

}}

Bousta is a settlement on Mainland, in Shetland, Scotland. Bousta is situated in the parish of Walls and Sandness.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/parishes/pardetails40.html|title=Details of Parish of Walls and Sandness|publisher=Scottish Places|accessdate=17 December 2014}}

Scott's Hawkweed is native to the pastures west of Bousta.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ulm5mCqAVZUC&q=bousta+sandness&pg=PA323|title=Flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, Campanulaceae - Asteraceae|isbn=9781139451208|accessdate=17 December 2014|last1=Sell|first1=Peter|last2=Murrell|first2=Gina|date=6 April 2006}} Barnacle geese have been observed at Bousta,{{cite web|url=http://www.nature-shetland.co.uk/naturelatest/archives/birdarchive2005jan.htm|title=January 2005 Sightings|publisher=Nature in Shetland|accessdate=17 December 2014}} as well as seals.{{cite web|url=http://www.howardtowll.com/photo_736533.html|title=Sleeping Seal|publisher=Howard Towll|accessdate=17 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041503/http://www.howardtowll.com/photo_736533.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}