Stromness

Stromness name comes from Norse " Straumsnes"

The Stromness News was a short lives published newspaper

Resolution and Discovery, Capt Cook`s ships visited in 1780

Oldest vertebrate remains in 1849 found by Hugh Miller

Many celebrities came to entertain the troops in World War 11

Naming Stone, in Billia Croo, Stromnessians inscribed their names

Enormous friction between Kirkwall and Stromness through history

Saltaire was the first town`s Lifeboat to be launched in 1867

Safe anchorage in Viking times known as "Hamnavoe"

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