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Stromness

Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the , with a population of roughly 2200. To the Vikings, Straumsnes meant the headland just south, where a fierce tide rips between Scapa Flow and the Atlantic; get past that and you came safely into Hamnavoe or "peaceful harbour" where the town now stands.
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  • Type: Town with 1,700 residents
  • Description: second largest town in Orkney, Scotland
  • Also known as: “Hamnavoe”, “Straumnes”, and “Strømnes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stromness Museum and Inner Holm.

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

Islet
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is a small inhabited island in Stromness harbour and one of the islands of Scotland. It is about 350 metres east of the harbour front of Stromness but it is connected to the shore at low tide on the opposite side of the bay.

Lighthouse
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Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to , in the Orkney Islands of . The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within the parish of Stromness.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stenness and Cairston.

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is a small, scattered village in the , Scotland, on the A965 main road between Kirkwall and Stromness. It has several UNESCO World Heritage Listed neolithic sights: the Stones, Maeshowe and Ring of Brodgar, with Skara Brae a few miles further north.

Locality
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is a village on , in , Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Stromness.

Locality
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is a locality.

Stromness

Latitude
58.9614° or 58° 57′ 41″ north
Longitude
-3.2994° or 3° 17′ 58″ west
Population
1,700
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SNS
Open location code
9CCRXP62+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 410395804
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636638
Wiki­data ID
Q839556
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Stromness” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Stromness”
  • Basque: “Stromness”
  • Bengali: “স্ট্রোমনেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Стромнес”
  • Catalan: “Stromness”
  • Cebuano: “Stromness”
  • Chinese: “斯特罗姆内斯”
  • Chinese: “斯特羅姆內斯”
  • Danish: “Stromness”
  • Dutch: “Stromness”
  • Esperanto: “Stromness”
  • Faroese: “Stromness”
  • Finnish: “Stromness”
  • French: “Stromness”
  • German: “Stromness”
  • Greek: “Στρόμνις”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટ્રોમનેસ”
  • Hebrew: “סטרומנס”
  • Hungarian: “Stromness”
  • Irish: “Sróimnis”
  • Irish: “Sròimnis”
  • Irish: “Stromness”
  • Italian: “Stromness”
  • Japanese: “ストロムネス”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟ್ರೋಮ್ನೆಸ್”
  • Korean: “스트롬니스”
  • Lithuanian: “Stromnesas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stromness”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stromness”
  • Norwegian: “Stromness”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stromnæs”
  • Ossetian: “Стромнесс”
  • Persian: “استورم‌نس”
  • Polish: “Stromness”
  • Portuguese: “Stromness”
  • Russian: “Стромнесс”
  • Scots: “Stromness”
  • Scots: “Strumnis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stromness”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stromness”
  • Slovak: “Stromness”
  • Spanish: “Stromness”
  • Swedish: “Stromness”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரோமன்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “స్ట్రోం నెస్”
  • Urdu: “اسٹرومنیس”
  • Welsh: “Stromness”
  • Western Frisian: “Stromness”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Stromness”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.