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	The Mainland, Orkney - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		The Mainland is the main island of Orkney, Scotland.
		Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections.
		The eastern part of The Mainland is shaped like the letter "W", the easternmost peninsula being known as Deerness.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Orkney_Mainland (221 words)

	Orkneyjar - Orcadian Facts and Figures
		Orkney is separated from Caithness, on the Scottish mainland, by the Pentland Firth, 6.5 miles wide at the narrowest.
		The area of the Orkney Mainland is 202 square miles.
		The highest point on the Orkney Mainland is Ward Hill in Orphir - 881 feet.
	www.orkneyjar.com /orkney/trivia.htm (328 words)

	Orkneyjar - The Heritage of the Orkney Islands
		The island of Eynhallow lies between the Orkney Mainland and Rousay.
		Abandoned in 1851, the 75-hectare island is surrounded by ferocious tidal races - known as "roosts" in Orcadian dialect.
		Although Orkney is home to a number of well-known standing-stones, such as the Ring o' Brodgar, it also has its fair share of lesser-known monoliths.
	www.orkneyjar.com (673 words)

	The Trees of Orkney
		Apart from this, Orkney's native trees are represented only by scattered trees and small groups including a number of gullies and ravines in Hoy which are supporting small populations of native trees.
		On Mainland Orkney numerous areas of low willow carr can be seen and Aspen can be found clinging on to cliffs around Scapa Flow., as in the photograph on the right.
		Orkney Islands Council is committed to using native trees in suitable situations and the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group is recommending their use wherever appropriate.
	www.firth.orkney.sch.uk /trees/natrees.htm (3552 words)

	International Travel News: Escape from time — a week in Orkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orkney is a group of 70+ islands, 20 of them inhabited, lying off the northern tip of Scotland between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
		Orkney's past may be inescapable, but this remote group of islands is also one of the most timeless places I have ever visited.
		Skara Brae was a small Neolithic village, its houses linked by passageways, the whole enclosed within a midden (a mixture of shells, animal bones and sand) that served to protect the community during the five or six centuries it was occupied and in the 45 centuries it lay deserted, until uncovered in 1850.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3648/is_2_25/ai_61643038 (1587 words)

	West Mainland Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		West Mainland is the largest part of the largest island in Orkney.
		At the north west tip of Mainland is the Brough of Birsay.
		Grouped together within a fairly small area in the centre of West Mainland are the finest chambered tomb in North West Europe at Maes Howe, the standing Stones of Stenness, and the stone circle at the Ring of Brogar.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /westmainland/westmainland (1008 words)

	GENUKI: Orkney
		Orkney Family History Researchers are engaged in researching the histories of families in every parish and island in Orkney.
		Orkney is blessed with a wealth of records which are of use to both historians and genealogists.
		Orkney Today is the county's first new weekly newspaper in 42 years, and was launched in October 2003.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/sct/OKI (4050 words)

	Orkney Travel & Sightseeing - The Internet Guide to Scotland
		Orkney is a group of islands situated a few miles off the north-east tip of mainland Scotland.
		If you are staying on the mainland and have only one day to spend visiting Orkney, why not see all the main historical places of interest on a coach tour with: John O'Groats Ferries.
		Orkney Ferries Ltd sail to Rousay, Egilsay, Wyre, Shapinsay, Hoy, Graemsay, Flotta, Eday, Stronsay, Sanday, Westray, North Ronaldsay and Papa Westray.
	www.scotland-inverness.co.uk /orkney.htm (3987 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Almost another island, the easternmost parish of Deerness is connected to the Orkney Mainland by a narrow neck of land on which there is a single road crossing the sand dunes at Dingieshowe.
		Orkney has a huge variety of birds, both resident and visitor, which thrive on the range of habitats which the islands offer...
		Orkney`s East Mainland is well situated to receive migrant birds drifted off their normal course by easterly winds across the North Sea at times of migration.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/scotland_orkney.html (2233 words)

	Island Hopping – Visiting the Orkney and Shetland Isles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After visiting the highest point of mainland Scotland and the UK, Dunnethead, we boarded the ferry to Stornoway on the Orkney Islands.
		ORKNEY: We enjoyed a bout of luxury whilst on Orkneys’ mainland in that we didn’t have to camp.
		A week on Orkney and it was time to move on, say goodbye to new found friends and head back to Stornoway to catch the ferry to the Shetland islands, 8 hours away by boat to the north and east.
	www.bikehiketour.com /new/report3.htm (1917 words)

	Orkney Islands Lighthouses
		The Orkney Islands lie north of the mainland of Scotland, separated from the mainland by the narrow waters of Pentland Firth.
		Helliar Holm is an island in Shapinsay Sound between Shapinsay Island and Orkney Mainland, on the north side of the Mainland.
		The lighthouse marks the northwestern corner of the Orkneys on the island of Westray.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/ork.htm (2240 words)

	orkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The settlement of the Orkneys and Shetlands was primarily Norwegian.
		The settlement of the Shetlands was similar to that of the Orkneys.
		Because Jarlshof is positioned on the south mainland of Shetland (near good agricultural land, close to fertile seas and gently sloping sandy beach), it was an obvious settlement point for the incoming Scandinavians.
	www.gettysburg.edu /academics/english/britain/Viking/orkney.html (1482 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Mainland [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby.
		As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands.
		Mainland Great Britain, as opposed to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Northern Ireland; in Great Britain, Continental Europe is referred to as The Continent.
	encyclozine.com /Mainland (256 words)

	A Climbers guide to Orkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In general the climbing in Orkney is on sandstone sea cliffs as there are no inland crags.
		This part of the site is the beginnings of a guide to Orkney with routes in several lesser known cliffs on both the Mainland (of Orkney) and the outer isles.
		Orkney Climbing Club: A group of Orkney based climbers.
	www.orkney-seastacks.co.uk (217 words)

	Welcome to Shapinsay E-Business Park
		One of the Orkney Islands, Shapinsay is a pleasant 30 minute ferry ride from Kirkwall - the main town on Orkney Mainland.
		The Orkney group of islands are situated off the North-Eastern tip of Scotland, and can boast an extensive range of archaeological sites, an abundance of bird and sea life, as well as some of the finest Jewelers in Britain.
		Although Orkney is on the same latitude as parts of Norway, it enjoys a mild climate thanks to the Gulf Stream.
	www.shapinsay.biz (307 words)

	Overview of Orkney Mainland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The largest island of the Orkney Island group, Orkney Mainland (or Pomona) has a length of 26 miles (42 km) from Brough Head in the northwest to Rose Ness in the southeast.
		Irregular in shape, it lies 16 miles (26 km) north of Duncansby Head on the Scottish Mainland and is surrounded by the islands of the Orkney Islands group.
		Kirkwall is the principal town of Mainland and lies on the southern shore of the Bay of Kirkwall, an inlet of the Wide Firth on the island's eastern coast.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1735.html (165 words)

	East Mainland Local Info on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Mainland of Orkney is pinched by an isthmus about a mile across between Kirkwall in the north and Scapa Bay in the south.
		The portion of the island to the east of this, about a third of the total, is known as East Mainland.
		This book examines the monuments of prehistoric Orkney, spanning a period from the earliest farmers of 4000 BC, to the Viking arrival in the years before AD 800.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /eastmainland/eastmainland/info.html (283 words)

	The Orkney Mainland - Stenness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Parish of Stenness lies on the north side of the Orphir hills and is quite rightly regarded as the Neolithic ceremonial centre of the Orkney mainland.
		The last pitched battle in Orkney was fought on the border of Stenness and Orphir.
		The army of King James V led by the Earl of Caithness, sent to crush the islanders' rebellion against taxes and feudalism, was defeated.
	www.orkney.org /mainland/stenness.htm (238 words)

	Lets Go There - A guide to Isles of Scotland: Orkney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orkney is actually made up of 70 islands, only 17 of which are actually inhabited.
		The village of Skara Brae on the mainland part of Orkney is one the best preserved Stone Age settlements in Europe.
		There is 8,000 hectares of nature reserve here, which is home to a vast array of birds and animals, from puffins to seals on the shorelines.
	www.letsgothere.co.uk /lgtnet/locations/3-98.aspx (303 words)

	Orkney history in print: Books about Orkney from amazon.co.uk
		Landranger Map 0005: Orkney (Northern Isles) Ordnance Survey - Designed for people who really want to get to know the southern islands of Orkney.
		Landranger Map 0006: Orkney (Mainland) Ordnance Survey - Designed for people who really want to get to know the main island of Orkney.
		Tells the story of the Vikings in Orkney and the rest of Britain and also uses advanced DNA testing to show how the influence of the Vikings has lingered genetically in modern Britain.
	www.postroman.info /Bookstore/orkbooks.htm (333 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| I'm a farmer ... get me out of here
		He left Westray (pop 560) at 9am on a boat for Orkney Mainland (that is to say, the largest of the Orkney Islands, off the northernmost tip of Scotland), flew to Edinburgh, changed planes and landed at Heathrow at 8pm.
		He's been to Aberdeen and Dundee to see his son play rugby for Orkney; he's been on a canal holiday with his wife, near Inverness; he went to Aviemore once, on "a fact-finding mission to see rabbit-proof fencing".
		The current ferry timetable means that it's impossible for folk to commute to Orkney mainland for work, although people can, and do, commute the other way round.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1314975,00.html (1594 words)

	The Orkney Mainland - Stenness
		Accomodation providers who are members of the Orkney Tourist Board have been graded and classified by the Scottish Tourist Board.
		On the shores of the Stenness Loch, an ideal base for discovering all of Orkney's atrractions.
		Charming old Orkney stone cottage, renovated to a high standard.
	www.orkney.org /mainland/stennessaccom.htm (161 words)

	GENUKI: Orkney
		The Eighteenth-Century Church in Orkney: by William P. Thomson.
		Orkney Surnames: 1912 Old Lore Miscellany v,28-33,63-67,153-154 vi,8,9 vii,l03.
		The Orkney Family History Society was formed in 1997.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/OKI (4050 words)

	Orkney Mainland from the summit of Cuilags - Orkneys 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orkney Mainland from the summit of Cuilags - Orkneys 2003
		Description: Neil and Mark contemplate the view of Mainland beneath a busy sky.
		The dappled sunshine was characteristic of the weather today, and raised our hopes for a success view of the eclipse tomorrow.
	www.racingshadow.com /albums/Orkneys2003/album79.html (44 words)

	Dating Orkney with Date the UK
		So if you live in Orkney and are looking for a date, romance, online chat or a relationship in a town like Kirkwall, Stromness or Orkney, then there is no better place to start.
		Dating Online in Orkney UK We think that Date the UK is the best online dating site in the UK - just click on the links on the left to find out more.
		So now if you live in Orkney and are looking for a date, romance, online chat or a relationship in a town like Kirkwall, Stromness or Orkney, you won't need to walk for miles or pay a fortune in bus fares, only to sit alone in a bar or coffee shop.
	www.datetheuk.com /uk/dating-Orkney.asp (954 words)

	Orkney Self Catering Residential Caravan Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If you are interested in a holiday in Orkney then you have come to the right place.
		From Burray you can drive to the mainland of Orkney or some of the other islands.
		Map of Orkney Islands (We are located on Burray).
	members.fortunecity.com /yvonneoforkney/orkney (151 words)

	Entertainment and amusement in Mainland - Mainland attractions - TripAdvisor
		Orkney Islands: The Creel Restuarant, St. Margarets Hope 1 replies, 9:04 am, Sep 27, 2005
		Orkney Islands: Shoreside BandB, St Margarets Hope (no replies, 6:09 am, Sep 09, 2005)
		Orkney Islands: Looking for Gilly Lockhart (no replies, 4:56 pm, Jun 02, 2005)
	tripadvisor.com /Attractions-g190779-Activities-c3-Mainland_Orkney_I... (252 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Isle tunnel plans under spotlight
		Ambitious plans to build a tunnel from Orkney to the mainland are being examined by island councillors.
		Plans have also been put forward for linking some outlying islands, such Shapinsay and Rousay, to the Orkney mainland by tunnel.
		A council spokesman said earlier: "Improvements to Orkney's transport system are a key part of the community plan and the council's corporate plan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/scotland/4331889.stm (520 words)

	Getting to Longhope from the Orkney Mainland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hoy is reached from the Orkney mainland by ferry.
		The ferry departs the Houton terminal which is a 15 minute drive from Kirkwall.
		All the inter-island ferries are operated by Orkney Ferries.
	www.longhope.co.uk /getting_here2.php (136 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Orkney: West Mainland (Explorer Maps) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Buy Orkney: West Mainland (Explorer Maps) with Orkney: Hoy, South Walls and Flotta (Explorer Maps...
		Orkney: Hoy, South Walls and Flotta (Explorer Maps); Map ~ Ordnance Survey
		Orkney: Sanday, Eday, North Ronaldsay and Stronsay (Explorer Maps); Map ~ Ordnance Survey
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0319234096 (392 words)

	Orkney Mainland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our first day on Orkney fell on a Sunday, so we caught the bus into Kirkwall for the day for shopping, site-seeing, and good times at the bar in the bowling alley!
		On Monday, we rented a car from the local taxi driver and toured the Island.
		Oh, and that would be the Atlantic Ocean in the background there...
	www.nursejilly.com /Orkney2.html (149 words)

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