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SPORT FOR ALL
 As well as sailing and rowing, Shetland offers a remarkable range of
sporting pursuits, both indoors and outdoors. Indoor sports benefit from
some of the best facilities you'll find anywhere in the UK. Lerwick's huge
Clickimin Leisure Complex has space for hockey, badminton, netball,
volleyball, bowls, roller skating, short tennis, table tennis, indoor
cricket and football. It also offers a state of the art 25m pool with river
rapids, flumes, toddlers' lagoon and jacuzzi. Linked facilities include a
steam room, solarium and superb fitness suite. Even more remarkable, six
other modern pools, three of them with well-equipped indoor sports halls,
provide similar if smaller scale opportunities in outlying areas.
 Summer sees local competition on high quality pitches in football, rugby and
hockey. Golf enthusiasts are well catered for too, with several courses of 9
or 18 holes and a floodlit driving range. No floodlights are needed around
midsummer, though, when a tournament is traditionally played at midnight.
 If you're feeling particularly energetic, running is popular in Shetland and
you'll be welcome to join the local road runners at one of their weekly
sessions, or take part in athletics events at the Clickimin Leisure Complex
in Lerwick.
The list of more specialised outdoor pursuits you can enjoy
includes archery and clay pigeon shooting. Again, local clubs will extend a
warm welcome and allow you to join in their competitions.
A GALLERY OF ART AND CRAFT
 For
the visiting artist, our landscapes and seascapes offer a range of subjects
at any time of the year: dramatic light, cloud and storm effects in winter
and surprisingly verdant pastoral scenes around abandoned crofting
settlements in summer. The materials found on the land or shore and objects
from traditional life have also provided inspiration for more abstract
interpretations.
 Those
who come equipped with easel or camera will find no shortage of subjects. If
you'd rather admire others' efforts, local artists' work can often be seen
in exhibitions and there arc many examples of public art, most of all in
Scalloway where a number of notable artists have contributed to a public art
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