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main base brought plenty of money and activity during both world wars, and left the
clifftops dotted with gun emplacements and the sea bed scattered with wrecks - which
today make for wonderful diving opportunities.
The oil boom
After the war, things quietened down, although since the mid-1970s the large oil
terminal on the island of Flotta, the establishment of the Orkney Islands Council
(OIC), combined with EU development grants, have brought surprise windfalls,
stemming the exodus of young people. Meanwhile, many disenchanted southerners
Mull
Head
ORKNEY
North
Ronaldsay
8
Papa
Westray
0
10
miles
Noup Head
Pierowall
Westray
N
7
Sanday
Rapness
Kettletoft
Rousay
Eday
Egilsay
Brough Head
Birsay
Whitehall
Evie
Wyre
Stronsay
Tingwall
Dounby
Lamb Head
Mainland
Skara Brae
Shapinsay
2
Balfour
Wide
Firth
Auskerry
1
Finstown
Maes
Howe
3
Mull
Head
Kirkwall
Stromness
Graemsay
Hoy
Orphir
Houton
Ward Hill
(1577ft)
St Mary's
Scapa
Flow
Old Man
of Hoy
Copinsay
Churchill
Barriers
5
Rackwick
Hoy
Flotta
HIGHLIGHTS
Maes Howe
Skara Brae
St Magnus Cathedral,
Kirkwall
Tomb of the Eagles
Rackwick
Scapa Flow Visitor Centre
Westray
North Ronaldsay
Lyness
Burray
1
6
St Margaret's Hope
2
3
South
Ronaldsay
Longhope
4
5
6
7
8
Burwick
4
Swona
Tomb
of the Eagles
Brough Ness
Dunnet
Head
Pentland
Skerries
Stroma
John
O'Groats
Gill's
Bay
Duncansby Head
Aberdeen
Thurso
Wick
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