Scotland Council Quiz - Orkney Islands

Largest town on the Orkney Islands

449 foot red sandstone sea stack off the island of Hoy

Name given to someone from the Orkney Islands

Ornate Catholic place of worship in the Orkney Islands, built during WW2 by POWs

Sheltered body of water in the Orkneys which was the main British naval base during WW2

Protective causeways linking some of the islands, intended to prevent enemy submarines
from entering the above body of water and attacking the fleet

Remarkable prehistoric village which is one of Orkney's most-visited ancient sites

Second-most populous town which has a ferry service to Scrabster on the mainland

According to the 'Orkneyinga Saga' this man was the most powerful of all the earls of Orkney

Orkney born physician Thomas Stewart Traill edited the 8th edition of this prestigious encyclopaedia while a Professor at the University of Edinburgh

In October 1939, this battleship, moored in the Orkneys, was sunk by a German U-boat

The village of Burwick on this island is the closest Orkney harbour to the Scottish mainland

Large stone circle dating from the late Neolithic period, which has a ditch and causeways

Britain’s most northerly Cathedral, known as the ‘Light in the North’

Small, fertile island, to the north of the island of Westray. The two islands are connected by the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world at under two minutes