Stromness
Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, 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.
- Town with 1,700 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 23 feet (7 metres)
- Description: second largest town in Orkney, Scotland
- Also known as“Hamnavoe”“Straumnes”“Strømnes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stromness Museum and Inner Holm.
Hoy Sound Low Light
Lighthouse
Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stenness and Cairston.
Stromness
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Latitude
58.9614° or 58° 57′ 41″ north
Longitude
-3.2994° or 3° 17′ 58″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB SNS
Open location code
9CCRXP62+H6
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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”
- Indonesian: “Stromness”
- Irish: “Sróimnis”
- Irish: “Sròimnis”
- Irish: “Stromness”
- Italian: “Stromness”
- Japanese: “ストロムネス”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟ್ರೋಮ್ನೆಸ್”
- Korean: “스트롬니스”
- Lithuanian: “Stromnesas”
- Northern Frisian: “Stromness”
- 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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