The islands of Orkney might look remote on the map — trace your finger up to John o' Groats, then keep going north — but the truth is slightly different. The archipelago's North Sea location ...

Know about Orkney Island Airport in detail. Find out the location of Orkney Island Airport on United Kingdom map and also find out airports near to Orkney Island. This airport locator is a very useful ...

The specific location of The Outrun ... The Ring of Brodgar is a Neolithic stone circle on the Orkney island. I recommend a visit to St John’s Head, Britain’s highest vertical cliff, on ...

The Princess Royal will officially open the 20th International Island Games in Orkney this summer. Princess Anne will attend the opening of the week-long event at Kirkwall's Bignold Park on 12 July.

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a ...

Ann Cleeves' new book, The Killing Stones, picks up after a gap of seven years and will see Perez swap his hometown of Shetland for a new island location, Orkney. The latest book, from the author ...

“Even then, Orkney was identified as a location that could be ideal to test ... With more energy than could be used, the islands had to halt further development of renewables, resulting in ...

Orkney was previously held under Norwegian and Danish control until it became part of Scotland in 1472. Categories: Politics , International . Tags: James Stockan , Orkney Islands .