Orkney

Orkney
Gaelic name	Arcaibh
Norse name	Orkneyjar
Meanin o name	"Ork" possibly oreeginally frae a Pictish tribal name meanin ‘young pig’.
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Location
	Orkney Orkney shawn within Scotland
Coordinates	59°0′N 3°2′W / 59.000°N 3.033°WCoordinates: 59°0′N 3°2′W / 59.000°N 3.033°W
Physical geography
Island group	Northren Isles
Aurie	990 km2 (380 sq mi)
Admeenistration
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Kintra	Scotland
Cooncil aurie	Orkney Islands Cooncil
Demografics
Population	22,100 (2017)
Population density	52 per square mile (20/km2)
Lairgest settlement	Kirkwa

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