• The Orkney Club is situated in Kirkwall, Orkney. It was founded in 1826 as a gentlemen's club, ladies first being admitted as members in 1994. Membership...
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    Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. The plural name the Orkneys is also sometimes...
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  • Orkney Football Club is a senior association football club from the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The club was founded in 2012 and competes in the North Caledonian...
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    islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 km2 (19.5 sq mi), it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands...
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  • Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney and Lord of Zetland (Shetland) (spring of 1533 – 4 February 1593) was a recognised illegitimate son of James V, King...
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    Stromness (redirect from Stromness, Orkney)
    Stromnes) is the second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland, Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside...
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    Westray to Papa Westray flight (category Transport in Orkney)
    Papa Westray Airport to Kirkwall Airport, the main hub for the Orkney Islands. The Orkney Islands Council awards the route, along with several other routes...
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    parish of Holm on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It was originally a fishing port. Orkney F.C., the island group's main football club, plays its home games at...
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    Witchcraft in Orkney possibly has its roots in the settlement of Norsemen on the archipelago from the eighth century onwards. Until the early modern period...
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  • The Orkney Natural History Society was a scientific society established in 1837 on Orkney, Scotland by Rev. William Stobbs, and Rev. William Clouston...
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  • The Outrun (film) (category Films set in Orkney)
    a young woman recently out of rehab for alcoholism, returns home to the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Her parents, originally from England, are separated...
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    Evie (pronounced /iːvi/) is a parish and village on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The parish is located in the north-west of the Mainland, between Birsay...
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    the interior consists of light thin, loamy land. Orkney F.C., the island group's main football club, played its home games at The Rockworks Community...
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  • Orkney Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club located in the town of Kirkwall, Scotland. Orkney RFC was founded in 1966. In recent years Orkney have...
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    Selkie (category Culture of Orkney)
    Pottinger, J. A. (1908), "The Selkie Wife", Orkney and Shetland Miscellany, vol. 1, no. 5, Viking Club, pp. 173–175 Keightley, Thomas (1850) [1828],...
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    The Orkney football team is the representative football team for the islands of Orkney, Scotland. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA. The team regularly...
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  • The Superstation Orkney, also known as just The Superstation, was a commercial radio station, broadcasting to Orkney and Caithness. Until its closure...
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  • London in 1892 as the Orkney, Shetland and Northern Society or the Viking Club, its name was changed in 1902 to the Viking Club or Society for Northern...
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  • Golspie Sutherland Halkirk United Invergordon Inverness Athletic Loch Ness Orkney St Duthus Thurso Arbroath Victoria Blairgowrie Brechin Victoria Broughty...
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    offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides...
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    constituencies of Na h-Eileanan an Iar covering the Western Isles, and Orkney and Shetland, covering the Northern Isles. The SNP ultimately won nine seats...
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    Old Man of Hoy (category Landforms of Orkney)
    Old Man of Hoy is a 449-foot (137-metre) sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Formed from Old Red Sandstone...
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  • Trow (folklore) (category Culture of Orkney)
    malignant or mischievous fairy or spirit in the folkloric traditions of the Orkney and Shetland islands. Trows may be regarded as monstrous giants at times...
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    Ronaldsay in Orkney. The settlement takes its name from Jan de Groot, a 15th-century Dutchman who once plied a ferry from the Scottish mainland to Orkney, which...
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  • Sutherland Halkirk United Invergordon Inverness Athletic St Duthus Thurso Orkney Bunillidh Thistle of Helmsdale rejoined the league for the first time since...
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  • domus, mare amicus the North is our home, the sea is our friend Motto of Orkney brutum fulmen harmless (or inert) thunderbolt Used to indicate either an...
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  • Athletic St Duthus Thurso Loch Ness Bonar Bridge Clachnacuddin Reserves Orkney Withdrew Nairn County 'A' Source: North Caledonian Football League Rules...
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  • Oxford United Football Club (/ˈɒksfərd/) is a professional football club based in Oxford, England. The club compete in the EFL Championship, the second...
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  • Euphemia Elphinstone (category People associated with Orkney)
    James V of Scotland and the mother of his son Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, born in 1532, as well as another child who died in childhood. One of her...
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    Scotland Orkney Shetland Nan Gàidheal...
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