Orkney Islands
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| Orkney | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 16rd 990 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ | Kirkwa |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-ORK |
| ONS code | 00RA |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density |
Ranked 32nd 19,245 19 / km² |
| Politics | |
| Orkney Islands Cooncil http://www.orkney.gov.uk/ |
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| Control | Independent |
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The Orkney Islands is ane o 32 unitary cooncil in Scotland. Orkney is made up o 70 smaa islands 16km north o Caithness in northern Scotland. The maist muckle island is caad the Mainland; juist 20 is populatit.
Orkney's caipital is Kirkwa on the Mainland, hame tae St Magnus' Cathedral, wi aboot 6,000 fowk an a muckle port. The only ither burgh is Stromness at the wast end o the Mainland, wi 2,000 fowk bidin there. The third maist muckle seetlement is St Margaret's Hup on Sooth Ronaldsay.
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[edit] Islands
The maist muckle island in Orkney is kent as the Mainland. Aa the ither islands can be clessifee'd as north o sooth o the Mainland. The islands north o the Mainland is kent as the North Isles, wi thaim tae the sooth kent as the Sooth Isles. Sule Skerry an Sule Stack is 60km wast o the ither Orkneys, but is pairt o the cooncil area.
[edit] The North Isles
- Asukerry
- Calf of Eday
- Damsay
- Eday, Egilsay, Eynhallow
- Faray
- Gairsay
- Helliar Holm, Holm of Faray, Holm of Huip, Holm of Papay, Holm of Scockness
- Kili Holm
- Linga Holm
- Muckle Green Holm
- North Ronaldsay
- Papa Stronsay, Papa Westray
- Rousay, Rusk Holm
- Sanday, Shapinsay, Stronsay, Sweyn Holm
- Westray, Wyre
[edit] The Sooth Isles
- Burray
- Calf of Flotta, Cava, Copinsay, Corn Holm
- Fara, Flotta
- Glims Holm, Graemsay
- Hoy, Hunda
- Lamb Holm
- Rysa Little
- Sooth Ronaldsay, Switha, Swona
Maist o the islands caad holms is gey smaa.
[edit] Geography
[edit] Geology
[edit] Climate
[edit] Economy
[edit] Communications
Frequent ferry services operates on the follaein routes:
- Lerwick tae Kirkwa
- Aiberdeen tae Kirkwa
- Scrabster tae Stromness
- John o Groats tae Burwick, Sooth Ronaldsay
- Gills Bay tae St Margaret's Hup
Maist o the muckle islands haes their ain airfield or airstrip. Loganair operates raigular services tae sax islands fae Kirkwa. Thir include the shortest scheduled air service in the warld, atween the islands o Westray an Papa Westray. The flicht is scheduled at twa meenutes' duration but can tak less nor a meenute if the wind is blawin in the richt airt.
[edit] Media
[edit] Heirskip
[edit] History
[edit] Leid
The aulder Norn wis replacit bi the Scots leid that itsel is bein replacit bi Scottish Inglis.
[edit] Orcadian fowk
Some weel-kent Orcadians:
- Magnus Erlendsson (Saint Magnus) (c1070 – c1117), Earl o Orkney c1105 – 1117
- Rognvald Kali Kolssson (Saint Rognvald) (c1103 – 1158), Earl o Orkney 1136 – 1158
- James Atkine (1613 – 1687), beeshop first o Moray an syne o Galloway
- Murdoch McKenzie (died 1797), the hydrographer
- Malcolm Laing (1762 – 1818), author o the History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
- William Sinclair (1766 – 1818), Chief Factor at the Hudsons Bay Company
- Mary Brunton (1778 – 1818), author o Self-Control, Discipline an ither novels
- Samuel Laing (1780 – 1868), author o A Residence in Norway, an translator o the Heimskringla, the Icelandic chronicle o the kings o Norrowey
- Thomas Stewart Traill (1781 – 1862), professor o medical jurisprudence at the Varsity o Edinburgh an editor o the 8t edeetion o the Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Samuel Laing (1812 – 1897), chairman o the Lunnon, Brighton & Sooth Coast railwey, an introducer o the seestem o "pairliamentary" trains wi fares o ae penny a mile
- Dr John Rae (1813 – 1893), the Arctic splorer
- William Balfour Baikie (1825 – 1864), the African traiveller
- Edwin Muir (1887 – 1959), author an poet
- Stanley Cursiter (1887 – 1976), artist
- Eric Linklater (1899 – 1974), novelist, playwrivht, jurnalist, essayist, an poet
- George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996), poet, author, playwricht.
- Cameron Stout, winner o the fowert series o the reality TV shaw Big Brother
- Luke Sutherland, writer o novels Jelly Roll, Sweatmeat an Venus As A Boy
