- With the Orkney’s fertile soils there are numerous farms and the most important sector is the economy. ... The nightless summer of Orkney Island fascinates tourists.
- Discover everything you need to know about Orkney Islands, Scrabster including history, facts, how to get there and the best time to visit.
- The Orkney islands (the locals do not generally refer to them as the 'Orkneys') seem remote and insignificant to anglocentric commentators.
- Visiting the Orkney Islands in Scotland takes you back 10,000 years, yet tours of the Mainland and Westray Isles show that time stands still.
- 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 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.
- The Orkney Islands are relatively flat islands, with the exception of a few sandstone hills and cliffs on the western coastlines of the archipelago.
- 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.