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The Orkney Islands are a group of a couple of hundred small islands about 10 miles north of Caithness? in northern Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as the "mainland". Orkney's administrative capital is Kirkwall? on the "mainland", a small city (due to the [Saint Magnus Cathedral]?) with a large port. The only other sizeable town is Stromness? at the western end of the "mainland". Frequent ferry services operate on the following routes: * Aberdeen to Stromness * Scrabster to Stromness * John o' Groats to St Mary's A locally-owned cargo service also takes passengers on its services from Kirkwall to Invergordon. |
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The Orkney Islands are a group of about 200 small islands 10 miles north of Caithness? in northern Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as "Mainland"; about 20 are inhabited in total. |
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* Hoy (which is also the highest) |
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* /Hoy? (which is also the highest) |
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* Rousay |
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* /Rousay? |
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Orkney's administrative capital is Kirkwall? on Mainland, a small city (due to the [Saint Magnus Cathedral]?) with a large port. The only other sizeable town is Stromness? at the western end of Mainland. Communications Frequent ferry services operate on the following routes: * Aberdeen to Stromness * Scrabster to Stromness * John o' Groats to St Mary's A locally owned cargo service also takes passengers on its services from Kirkwall to Invergordon. Heritage |
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