BaltasoundBaltasound was one of the main centres for the herring industry in northern Scotland ... Orkney. Knockando MillKnockando Mill is one of the oldest surviving district mills in the UK ...

Orkney is one of Scotland’s 32 unitary council areas. It is an archipelago of approximately 70 islands that lies 16 kilometres north of the coast of Caithness. 20 of the islands are inhabited.

Islands were sliding by in the North Sea as I looked ... The place is Orkney. Seventy islands (20 inhabited) off the northeast coast of Scotland—and a lot more skerries and holms than you ...