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Orkney Islands

noun

An archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland.

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"Orkney Islands" Quotes from Famous Books

... jarl became good friends, and Frithiof consented to stay for a while in the Orkney Islands; but after a time he ordered out his good ship "Ellide," and set ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

... Dega in the south, and of the children of Orc [Footnote: In scriptural language "of the seed of the giants," huge, simple-hearted and simple-minded men, who could obey orders and ask no questions.] from the Isles of Ore in the frozen seas. [Footnote: The Orkney Islands.] The blood of the Fomoroh was in those men. The women went on, and that grim company followed, keeping close behind. When they gained the first cover of the trees Levarcam turned round and stretched over them her wand. They stood motionless, both men and dogs. Then the ...

— The Coming of Cuculain • Standish O'Grady

... Ocean Territory Okhotsk, Sea of Pacific Ocean Okinawa Japan Oman, Gulf of Indian Ocean Ombai Strait Pacific Ocean Oporto (US Consulate) Portugal Oran (US Consulate) Algeria oCresund (The Sound) Atlantic Ocean Orkney Islands United Kingdom Osaka-Kobe (US Consulate General) Japan Oslo (US Embassy) Norway Otranto, Strait of Atlantic Ocean Ottawa (US Embassy) Canada Ouagadougou (US Embassy) Burkina ...

— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... navigations. On passing before the Palace of the Bourse he shot a glance at the statue of the two great Marseillaise navigators,—Eutymenes and Pytas,—the most remote ancestors of Mediterranean navigators. One had explored the coast of Senegambia, the other had gone further up to Ireland and the Orkney Islands. ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Words linked to "Orkney Islands" : Atlantic Ocean, archipelago, Atlantic, Scotland, North Sea