Orkney Islands

Orkney, also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland. The plural name the Orkneys is also sometimes used, but locals now consider it outdated. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited. The largest island, the Mainland, has an area of 523 square kilometres (202 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest Scottish island and the tenth-largest island in the British Isles. Orkney's largest settlement, and also its administrative centre, is Kirkwall.

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Orkney 3

Orkney Islands seen from Pentland Firth

Sule Skerry South Landing

Holm, southern Mainland, Orkney

Loch of Harray - 1979

Robertson House, Eynhallow

Western coast of Eynhallow

North coast of Eynhallow

Eynhallow Monastery

• 'It rained a lot and nothing much happened': Settlement and society in Bronze Age Orkney - doctoral thesis by Caroline Mamwell, 2018, online
• Radiocarbon dating and marine reservoir correction of Viking Age Christian burials from Orkney - scientific article published in September 2000, online
• ЭСБЕ / Оркадские острова - encyclopedic article, Russian, 1996
• НЭС / Оркадские или Оркнейские острова - encyclopedic article, Russian, 1900
• Monuments as landscape: Creating the centre of the world in late Neolithic Orkney - scholarly article by Colin Richards published in October 1996, 2007
• Some Remarks on the Birds seen in the South-east Part of the Mainland of Orkney in October - article by Norman Frederic Ticehurst in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 4, issue 704 (February, 1900), Q1860, 2003
• On the intent to make cramp: an interpretation of vitreous seaweed cremation ‘waste’ from prehistoric burial sites in Orkney, Scotland - scientific article published in February 2007, 2000
• Christian and pagan practice during the conversion of Viking Age Orkney and Shetland - chapter published in 2003, 2019
• Cosmology, calendars and society in Neolithic Orkney: a rejoinder to Euan MacKie - scholarly article by Clive Ruggles & Gordon Barclay published March 2000 in Antiquity, Q1860, 1969
• Evaluation of electricity storage versus thermal storage as part of two different energy planning approaches for the islands Samsø and Orkney - scientific article, Q1860, 1981
• Christian I and the Pawning of Orkney: Some Reflections on Scandinavian Foreign Policy 1460-8 - scientific article published in 1969, Q1860, 2004
• A Bronze Age Burial Mound at Holland, St Ola, Orkney - scholarly article by Nigel Neil published in January 1981, 2018
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Orkney Islands - encyclopedia article, English, 1999
• Identity, Gender, Religion and Economy: New Isotope and Radiocarbon Evidence for Marine Resource Intensification in Early Historic Orkney, Scotland, UK - article, 1669
• Social organization in the Orcadian Neolithic: identification of elite domestic structures and settlements through analysis of excavation data - scientific article published in March 2018, 2016
• The world on a plate: ceramics, food technology and cosmology in Neolithic Orkney - scientific article published in June 1999, 2000
• 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown - Scottish parliamentary act, 2011
• Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Case Study from Orkney - , 1979
• What Was the Viking Age and When did it Happen? A View from Orkney - scientific article published on 5 July 2000
• Template:Country data Orkney - Wikimedia template, 2019
• Vikings in the Prehistoric Landscape: Studies on Mainland Orkney - scientific article published in May 2011
• MID-FLANDRIAN CHANGES IN VEGETATION ON MAINLAND ORKNEY - scientific article published in March 1979, Q1860
• கலைக்களஞ்சியம்/ஆர்க்கினி தீவுகள் -
• Pick-Dressing on the Neolithic Monuments of Orkney - scientific article published in September 2000
• The impact of population dynamics on social complexity in Neolithic Orkney - scientific article published in April 2019, Q1860

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Public bar		Commons
commons	image		Orkney 3		Commons
commons	image		Orkney Islands seen from Pentland Firth		Commons
commons	image		Sule Skerry South Landing		Commons
commons	image		Holm, southern Mainland, Orkney		Commons
commons	image		Loch of Harray - 1979		Commons
commons	image		Robertson House, Eynhallow		Commons
commons	image		Western coast of Eynhallow		Commons
commons	image		North coast of Eynhallow		Commons
commons	image		Eynhallow Monastery		Commons