Tuesday, beginning at 2 p.m. ET, LiveNOW from FOX will be covering the annual Up Helly Aa, a festival that takes place in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland, Scotland. WATCH LIVE: Tap ‘play’ on ...

Shetland, or the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago around 170km north of the Scottish mainland. It is made up of about 300 islands and skerries (tiny rocky islets), with 16 of them inhabited.

In the 1970s, an oil boom brought economic transformation to this cluster of islands in the North Sea, population of about 23,000. Many Shetlanders left the small-scale farming and fishing that ...