Other sights in Orkney IslandsOrkney Islands, Scotland

A 137-metre red sandstone sea stack, taller than the towers of the Forth Bridge and first climbed on live television in 1967.

A vast natural harbour ringed by Orkney's southern isles, a former naval anchorage and now a world-renowned wreck-dive site.

A characterful town museum in Stromness covering maritime, natural and Hudson's Bay Company history.

A tiny valley of stunted trees on Hoy, reputed to be the most northerly native woodland in Britain.

A low hill immediately above Stromness giving wide views over the town, Hoy and Scapa Flow.

A steep-sided rocky promontory with the remains of a Norse chapel, reached by a stepped path on Deerness.

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A sea stack off the south-east coast of Westray that is one of Orkney's most reliable spots to see puffins.

Four WWII causeways linking the Mainland to South Ronaldsay, flanked by the rusting hulks of scuttled blockships.

A weaving studio and gallery on South Ronaldsay showing large handwoven tapestries inspired by Orkney.

A naval-history museum at Lyness on Hoy telling the story of Scapa Flow's role in both world wars.

A spectacular collapsed sea cave connected to the sea by a tunnel, in the Mull Head reserve on Deerness.

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Orkney's island-history museum in the 16th-century Tankerness House, opposite St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.

A stretch of dramatic Old Red Sandstone sea cliffs and stacks on the west Mainland coast, popular for clifftop walks.