Orkney

Orkney is ane o 32 cooncil areas in Scotland. Orkney is made up o 70 ilands 16 km north o Caithness in northren Scotland. The maist mukkil iland is caad the Mainland; juist 20 is populatit. Orkney's heidtoun is Kirkwaa on the Mainland, hame ti St Magnus' Cathedral, wi aboot 6,000 fowk an a mukkil port. The anerlie ither burgh is Strumnis at the wast end o the Mainland, wi 2,000 fowk bydin thar. The thrid maist mukkil sattilment is The Hop on Sooth Ronaldsay. Ilands The maist mukkil iland in Orkney is kent as the Mainland. Aa the ither ilands can be clessifee'd as north o sooth o the Mainland. The ilands north o the Mainland is kent as the North Isles, wi thaim til the sooth kent as the Sooth Isles. Sule Skerry an Sule Stack is 60 km wast o the ither Orkneys, but is pairt o the cooncil area. The North Isles Asukerry Calf o Eday Damsay Eday, Egilsay, Eynhallow Faray Gairsay Helliar Holm, Holm o Faray, Holm o Huip, Holm o Papay, Holm o Scockness Kili Holm Linga Holm Mukkil Green Holm North Ronaldsay Papa Stronsay, Papa Westray Rousay, Rusk Holm Sanday, Shapinsay, Stronsay, Sweyn Holm Westray, Wyre The Sooth Isles Burray Calf o Flotta, Cava, Copinsay, Corn Holm Fara, Flotta Glims Holm, Graemsay Hoy, Hunda Lamb Holm Rysa Little Sooth Ronaldsay, Switha, Swona Maist o the ilands caad holms is gey smaa. Communications Frequent ferrie services operates on the follaein routes: Lerwick til Kirkwaa Aiberdeen til Kirkwaa Scrabster til Strumnis John o Groats til Burwick, Sooth Ronaldsay Gills Bay til St Margaret's Hup Maist o the mukkil ilands haes thair ain airfeild or airstrip. Loganair operates raigular servises ti sax ilands fae Kirkwaa. Thir include the cuttiest skeduled air serviss in the warld, atwein the ilands o Westray an Papa Westray. The flicht taks twa meinits' but can tak less nor a meinit gin the wind is blawin in the richt airt. Leid The aulder Norn wis replacit bi the Scots leid that itsel is bein replacit bi Scottish Inglis. Orcadian fowk Sum weil-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), bishop 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, Brichton & Sooth Strand 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 References Fremmit airtins Orkneyjar, an Orcadian History an Heirskip Steid Orkney airtins Galore! Archived 2005-08-30 at the Wayback Machine Orkneycommunities.co.uk, community news, picturs an wabsteids Orkney wi cairt Archived 2007-01-12 at the Wayback Machine Orkney Enterprise