- Orkney is a cluster of 70 islands located just 10 miles off the northern coastline of Scotland. ... Stromness village in the Orkney islands.
- The Orkney Islands are situated just off the northernmost point in Scotland. The only way to reach the islands is by air or sea.
- The Orkney Islands (often also called only Orkney) is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, United Kingdom. It is about 16 kilometres north of Caithness.
- The Orkney islands (the locals do not generally refer to them as the 'Orkneys') seem remote and insignificant to anglocentric commentators.
- There’s a magic to Orkney that you begin to feel as soon as the Scottish mainland slips astern. ... Viking settlement at Skara Brae, Orkney islands, Scotland, Uk.
- The Orkney Islands are relatively flat islands, with the exception of a few sandstone hills and cliffs on the western coastlines of the archipelago.
- Orcadian Jim Muir of Tankerness in Scotland's Orkney Islands tells a fascinating and personal story of the much-loved Inganess Bay from WWI to the present.
- The Orkney Islands is a cluster of more than 70 islands lying off the north coast of Scotland. It is a place of dramatic landscapes and seascapes...
- The main island, known as the “Mainland of Orkney” takes up more than half of the area and only twenty-one of the islands are inhabited.