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Stromness
Sign in to saveStromness (, ; ) is the second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland, Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Stromness
- UK place.scots_name
- Strumnis
- UK place.population
- 2,490
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.population_demonym
- Stromnessian
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 0.89
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- HY2509
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Orkney Islands
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Orkney Islands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Orkney and Shetland
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Orkney
- UK place.post_town
- STROMNESS
- UK place.postcode_district
- KW16
- UK place.postcode_area
- KW
- UK place.dial_code
- 01856
- UK place.static_image_name
- Stromness - Orkney Islands.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- A view of Stromness
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Orkney Islands
- Population
- 1810
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Stromness - geograph.org.uk - 1573936.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01856
Show 6 more facts
- postal code
- KW16
- Commons category
- Stromness
- OS grid reference
- HY2509
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Otto Wilhelm Sonder
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Town
- Parish
- Media and the arts
- Geology
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Stromness (, ; ) is the second-most populous town in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Mainland, Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital.
==Etymology== The name "Stromness" comes from the Old Norse Straumnes. Straumr refers to the strong tides that rip past the Point of Ness through Hoy Sound to the south of the town. Nes means "headland". Stromness thus means "headland protruding into the tidal stream". In Viking times the anchorage where Stromness now stands was called Hamnavoe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stromness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (11)
On the map
3 mapped locations