[49], Both Orkney and Shetland saw a significant influx of Norwegian settlers during the late 8th and early 9th centuries. Nearly all of the islands have lochs, but the watercourses are merely streams draining the high land. The Scottish National Party chose not to contest the seat to give the movement a "free run". "[Notes 18], During 2007 Scottish and Southern Energy plc in conjunction with the University of Strathclyde began the implementation of a Regional Power Zone in the Orkney archipelago, involving "active network management" that will make better use of existing infrastructure and allow a further 15 MW of new "non-firm generation" output from renewables onto the network. The best known literary figures from modern Orkney are the poet Edwin Muir, the poet and novelist George Mackay Brown, and the novelist Eric Linklater.

[81] The industry collapsed suddenly in 1830 after the removal of tariffs on imported alkali. Auskerry is south of Stronsay and has a population of only five. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in October. The expression "ferry louper" has a literal meaning of "ferry jumper" i.e. It is connected by ferry and air to Papa Westray, also known as "Papay". This long twilight is known in the Northern Isles as the "simmer dim". The islands are claimed both by Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962, previously as a Falkland Islands Dependency), and by Argentina as part of Argentine Antarctica. And other musings on 'Orkney' usage. [114], Glacial striation and the presence of chalk and flint erratics that originated from the bed of the North Sea demonstrate the influence of ice action on the geomorphology of the islands. ", It is often believed that the princess's death is associated with the village of. [Notes 16] The islands are notable for the absence of trees, which is partly accounted for by the strong winds.[100]. The South Orkney Islands are located at roughly the same latitude south as the Orkney Islands are north (60°S vs 59°N), although it is not known if this was a factor behind the naming of the islands. [84] In 1745, the Jacobite lairds on the islands ensured that Orkney remained pro-Jacobite in outlook, and was a safe place to land supplies from Spain to aid their cause. His sons Gawaine, Agravaine, Gareth, and Gaheris are major characters in the Matter of Britain. The local people are known as Orcadians and have a distinctive dialect of the Scots language and a rich inheritance of folklore. Middle Devonian basaltic volcanic rocks are found on western Hoy, on Deerness in eastern Mainland and on Shapinsay. Under the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, sovereignty claims are held in abeyance. [153] Moray Firth Radio broadcasts throughout Orkney on AM and from an FM transmitter just outside Thurso.

This base, renamed Orcadas in 1951, is still in operation today[update] and is thus the oldest research station continuously staffed in the Antarctic. For example on Shapinsay over 3,000 long tons (3,048 t) of burned seaweed were produced per annum to make soda ash, bringing in £20,000 to the local economy. The local council is Orkney Islands Council, one of only three Councils in Scotland with a majority of elected members who are independents. [44] The list is famous because it names six provinces in Roman Britannia: the sixth is the dubious "Orcades provincia", of which recent researches re-evaluate the possibility of real existence.

[179][180], Native Orcadians refer to the non-native residents of the islands as "ferry loupers", ("loup" meaning "jump" in the Scots language [181]) a term that has been in use for nearly two centuries at least. 72–73. King Lot in certain versions of the Arthurian legend (e.g., Malory) is ruler of Orkney. Thomson, William P.L. A group of islands in the Southern Ocean north-east of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Argentine Government Website with a map of the South Orkney Islands, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Orkney_Islands&oldid=974598435, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2007, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 August 2020, at 22:05. [7], Orkney is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, a constituency of the Scottish Parliament, a lieutenancy area, and a historic county. [151] Orkney also had a commercial radio station, The Superstation Orkney, which broadcast to Kirkwall and parts of the mainland and also to most of Caithness[152] until its closure in November 2014. The Mobile Library carries a wide range of books and audio books suitable for all ages and is completely free to use. The plural suffix -jar was later removed in English leaving the modern name Orkney. Abrams, Lesley "Conversion and the Church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age: "A Very Difficult Thing Indeed" in Ballin Smith. Thomson (2008) suggests that there was an element of Roman "boasting" involved, given that it was known to them that the, They were certainly politically organised.

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