Deerness
Sign in to savethumb|Covenanters' monument detail thumb|right|Covenanters' Memorial, Deerness. A memorial to 200 covenanters who drowned when their prison ship foundered in a storm.
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- Instance of
- peninsula
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Brough of Deerness - geograph.org.uk - 491356.jpg
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- Anton Drexler
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- Deerness
- located in/on physical feature
- Mainland
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
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- ''The Crown of London'' shipwreck
- Deerness Folklore
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thumb|Covenanters' monument detail thumb|right|Covenanters' Memorial, Deerness. A memorial to 200 covenanters who drowned when their prison ship foundered in a storm.
Deerness (, , Old Norse: Dyrnes) is a quoad sacra parish (i.e. one created and functioning for ecclesiastical purposes only) and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St Andrews and Deerness. There is a shop/post office and a community centre and the Deerness Distillery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deerness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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