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Stromness, the Glossary

45 relations: Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Skaill, Breckness House, English Channel, France, George Graham (bishop), George Mackay Brown, Graemsay, Great Britain, Greenland, Hamnavoe (poem), Hawaiian Islands, Herbert Wetterauer, HMS Discovery (1774), HMS Resolution (1771), Hoy Sound, Hoy, Orkney, Hudson's Bay Company, Hugh Miller, Inuit, James Cook, John Rae (explorer), Loch of Stenness, Mainland, Orkney, Margaret Gardiner (art collector), North Ronaldsay, Northern Canada, Old Norse, Orkney, Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency), Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency), Orkney Library and Archive, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pier Arts Centre, Scotland, Scrabster, Skaill House, Skara Brae, St Magnus Festival, Stromness Museum, The Yellow Cake Revue, Uranium, Uranium ore, Whaling, Yellowcake.
Fishing communities in Scotland
Parishes of Orkney
Towns in Orkney

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Bay of Skaill

The Bay of Skaill (from Old Norse Bugr Skála) is a small bay on the west coast of the Orkney Mainland, Scotland.

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Breckness House

Breckness House, sometimes known as Breckness Castle, is the site of the 17th century mansion, chapel and burial ground, built by George Graham (1565–1643), the Bishop of Orkney.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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George Graham (bishop)

George Graeme (1565–1643), Bishop of Dunblane and Bishop of Orkney, was a late sixteenth- and early seventeenth century Church of Scotland prelate.

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George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character.

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Graemsay

Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Hamnavoe (poem)

"Hamnavoe" is a poem by the Scottish poet George Mackay Brown.

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The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Herbert Wetterauer

Herbert Wetterauer (born on Easter Sunday 21 April 1957 in Karlsruhe, West Germany) is a German painter, sculptor and author.

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HMS Discovery (1774)

HMS Discovery was the consort ship of James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific Ocean in 1776–1780.

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HMS Resolution (1771)

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific.

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Hoy Sound

Hoy Sound is a body of salt water subject to tidal currents situated south of the town of Stromness in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

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Hoy, Orkney

Hoy (from Old Norse Háey, meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller (10 October 1802 – 23/24 December 1856) was a Scottish geologist, writer and folklorist.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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John Rae (explorer)

John Rae (i,; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada.

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Loch of Stenness

The Loch of Stenness is a large brackish loch on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland and is named for the parish of Stenness.

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Mainland, Orkney

The Mainland, also known as Hrossey and Pomona, is the main island of Orkney, Scotland.

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Margaret Gardiner (art collector)

Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE (22 April 1904 – 2 January 2005) was a radical modern British patron of artists and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist.

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North Ronaldsay

North Ronaldsay (also, North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Stromness and north Ronaldsay are Parishes of Orkney.

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Northern Canada

Northern Canada (Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Orkney

Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.

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Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Orkney is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the council area of Orkney.

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Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)

Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Orkney Library and Archive

Orkney Library and Archive is a Scottish public library service based in Kirkwall, Orkney.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

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Pier Arts Centre

The Pier Arts Centre is an art gallery and museum in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scrabster

Scrabster (Scraibster, Sgrabastair/Sgrabstal) is a small settlement on Thurso Bay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. Stromness and Scrabster are Fishing communities in Scotland.

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Skaill House

Skaill House is a historic manor house in Sandwick parish on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

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Skara Brae

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

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St Magnus Festival

The St Magnus International Festival is an annual, week-long arts festival which takes place at midsummer on the islands of Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland.

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Stromness Museum

Stromness Museum is a small independent museum in the town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland focusing on the town's connections to maritime and natural history.

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The Yellow Cake Revue

The Yellow Cake Revue is a musical composition for piano and voice.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Uranium ore

Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium within Earth's crust.

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Whaling

Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.

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Yellowcake

Yellowcake (also called urania) is a type of powdered uranium concentrate obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromness

Also known as Stromness (parish), Stromness Parish, Stromness, Orkney.

Stromness, the Glossary

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See also

Fishing communities in Scotland

Parishes of Orkney

Towns in Orkney

References