Orkney

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.

• 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

• 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.

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.

The aulder Norn wis replacit bi the Scots leid that itsel is bein replacit bi Scottish Inglis.

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

• Orkneyjar, an Orcadian History an Heirskip Steid
• Orkney airtins Galore! Archived 2005-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Orkneycommunities.co.uk, community news, picturs an wabsteids
• Orkney wi cairt Archived 2007-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Orkney Enterprise

Cooncil areas o Scotland

Ceity o Aiberdeen | Aiberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll an Bute | Clackmannanshire | Dumfries an Gallowa | Ceetie o Dundee | East Ayrshire | East Dunbartonshire | East Lowden | East Renfrewshire | Edinburgh | Fawkirk | Fife | Ceetie o Glesga | Hieland | Inverclyde | The Mairches | Midlowden | Moray | North Ayrshire | North Lanrikshire | Orkney | Perth an Kinross | Renfrewshire | Shetland | Sooth Ayrshire | Sooth Lanrikshire | Stirlin | Wast Dunbartonshire | Wast Lowden | The Waster Isles

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