Sandness is a headland and district in the west of Mainland, Shetland. The "d" is not pronounced locally.

The headland flanks the south side of Papa Sound near Papa Stour

Papa Stour

Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under twenty people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s. Located to the west of mainland Shetland and with an area of 828 hectares , Papa Stour is the eighth largest island in Shetland...

 leading into St Magnus Bay and the district includes the headland and forms the mainland part of Walls parish. The land itself is fairly fertile for Shetland and runs from Bousta

Bousta

Bousta is a village in Shetland, Scotland....

 to Huxter.