Similar words: coney island, canary islands, liberty island, falkland islands, fiji islands, faroe islands, spice islands, virgin islands. Meaning: n. an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland.
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1) The Orkney islands were formerly dependencies of Norway and Denmark.
2) The building was owned by Orkney Islands Council, but there seemed to be no difficulty in securing a temporary tenancy.
3) Orkney Islands Council abdicated all responsibility to its social work department: my children were made to suffer accordingly.
4) On the remote Orkney Islands, North Ronaldsay sheep can live on nothing but seaweed.
5) The Orkney Islands are a neolithic site of extraordinary richness.
6) One is that the people of the Orkney Islands, to the north of Scotland, share some ancestry with Siberians, possibly because some ancestors of modern Orcadians ventured to Asia via the Arctic Circle.
7) This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken.
8) Orkney Presbytery followed suit, stating their very grave misgivings about the procedures followed by Orkney Islands Council.
9) The rescue excavation is being undertaken by archaeologists from Orkney College and is sponsored by by Orkney Islands Council and Historic Scotland.
10) The SeaGen tidal machines, which are due to be installed off the Orkney Islands in a 100 megawatt site, function as underwater windmills, except their rotors are driven by currents and not the wind.
11) The slowly rotating turbine gathers the energy from the powerful surges of water pushed through the channel between the Orkney Islands and the north coast of Scotland with every turn of the tide.
12) The European marine-energy research centre is located in the Orkney Islands,[http://sentencedict.com/orkney islands.html] and plenty of research and development work is being done around the country.
13) Archaeology received a gift from nature in 1850, when a strong storm hit the Orkney Islands, stripping away sand dunes and uncovering the remains of the Skara Brae settlement.
14) A new type of wave power harnessing machine called the Oyster will be installed off the Orkney Islands for trials beginning this Autumn.
15) But they're ideal for power-generation systems that harness the restless fury of the sea — which is why the European Marine Energy Centre has set up shop in the Orkney Islands.
16) Scotland:A constituent country of the United Kingdom comprising the northern part of the island of Great Britain and the Hebrides, Shetland Islands, and Orkney Islands.
17) The OpenHydro tidal power machines will be used for a 200 megawatt site south of Scotland's Orkney Islands.
18) A constituent country of the United Kingdom comprising the northern part of the island of Great Britain and the Hebrides, Shetland Islands, and Orkney Islands.
More similar words: coney island, canary islands, liberty island, falkland islands, fiji islands, faroe islands, spice islands, virgin islands, cayman islands, ryukyu islands, leeward islands, south sea islands, solomon islands, mariana islands, marshall islands, hawaiian islands, aleutian islands, balearic islands, windward islands, cape verde islands, galapagos islands, philippine islands, northern mariana islands, british virgin islands, island, islander, north island, south island, long island, grand island.