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! 
 Orkneycommunities.co.uk, community news, picturs an wabsteids
 Orkney wi cairt 
 Orkney Enterprise


Category:Cooncil areas o Scotland
Category:Places o Scotland