Lyness

Photo of Lyness, a village in the Orkney Islands, the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
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Lyness

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Lyness sits on the island of Hoy at what was once the Royal Navy’s main base for the great Scapa Flow anchorage, through both world wars. The Scapa Flow Museum here tells that story, set among surviving fuel tanks and wartime structures. A ferry from Houton on the Mainland brings you across.

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