Later, though, they stayed and settled on the islands and coastal areas of the country. These became Viking land. Orkney became an important base for Vikings. For hundreds of years, many Scottish ...

“The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.” The largest island is referred to as the Mainland, though the Vikings knew it as Hrossey. Orkney is ...

Why Orkney of all places? How did this scatter of islands off the northern tip of Scotland come to be such a technological, cultural, and spiritual powerhouse? “For starters, you have to stop ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years. Created by the Mapping and ...

Orkney’s archipelago of 70 windswept islands, north of the Scottish mainland ... a testament to the Vikings' architectural prowess during their 500-year reign over the islands.