Isbister, Shetland

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{{Infobox UK place

| official_name=Isbister

| label_position=left

| static_image_name= Southern tip of Isbister Loch (geograph 3584951).jpg

| static_image_caption= The southern tip of Isbister Loch, with Isbister in the background

| country= Scotland

| population=

| os_grid_reference= HU578642

| coordinates = {{coord|60.359|-0.952|display=inline,title}}

| post_town= SHETLAND

| postcode_area= ZE

| postcode_district= ZE2

| dial_code= 01806

| constituency_westminster= Orkney and Shetland

| civil_parish= Nesting

| unitary_scotland= Shetland

| lieutenancy_scotland= Shetland

| constituency_scottish_parliament= Shetland

}}

Isbister is a settlement in eastern Whalsay in the parish of Nesting in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It lies on the eastern side of Loch of Isbister. There is a small islet about {{convert|2|km}} off the coast named Isbister Holm, where the ship Jufron Ingester was wrecked on 12 November 1778.{{cite web|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/242269/details/jufron+ingester+isbister+holm+whalsay+skerries+north+sea/|title=Jufron Ingester|publisher=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|accessdate=1 February 2013}} The ancestral home of the great Adam Isbister, also known as A.

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