The Orkney Islands are an archipelago of seventy islands as well as islets off the northeast coast of Scotland; the largest of these is known every bit The Mainland as well as it is that isle that nosotros explored today.
Famous for its collection of Neolithic "architecture," including rock circles, a burial sleeping room (Maeshowe) as well as the remnants of a hamlet (Skara Brae), all dating dorsum to 3000 BC, every bit good every bit Viking engravings (at Maeshowe) from the twelfth Century AD, the island's pastoral, rolling landscape is pleasing to the eye. A large, natural harbor (second alone inwards size to that of Sydney, Australia) stretches across the nub of The Mainland spell several saltwater bays, freshwater lakes as well as depression ridges disrupt the hayfields as well as grasslands. Massive cliffs of granite ascent along the western coast, lashed as well as sculpted past times monstrous waves from the North Atlantic.
During our tour of the island, nosotros too encountered large flocks of greylag geese as well as a large divulge of swans (primarily whooper swans migrating from Republic of Iceland as well as peradventure about Bewick's swans, arriving from Siberia to wintertime inwards Scotland). Tomorrow nosotros larn out the Orkneys to move across the northern Scottish mainland every bit nosotros caput toward The Hebrides, about other archipelago off the western coast of Scotland.
Famous for its collection of Neolithic "architecture," including rock circles, a burial sleeping room (Maeshowe) as well as the remnants of a hamlet (Skara Brae), all dating dorsum to 3000 BC, every bit good every bit Viking engravings (at Maeshowe) from the twelfth Century AD, the island's pastoral, rolling landscape is pleasing to the eye. A large, natural harbor (second alone inwards size to that of Sydney, Australia) stretches across the nub of The Mainland spell several saltwater bays, freshwater lakes as well as depression ridges disrupt the hayfields as well as grasslands. Massive cliffs of granite ascent along the western coast, lashed as well as sculpted past times monstrous waves from the North Atlantic.
During our tour of the island, nosotros too encountered large flocks of greylag geese as well as a large divulge of swans (primarily whooper swans migrating from Republic of Iceland as well as peradventure about Bewick's swans, arriving from Siberia to wintertime inwards Scotland). Tomorrow nosotros larn out the Orkneys to move across the northern Scottish mainland every bit nosotros caput toward The Hebrides, about other archipelago off the western coast of Scotland.
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