But Orkney's trump card is history: Stone Age history, Viking history, World War naval history (both World War I and World War II, when submarines sank battleships in Scapa Flow and the whole ...
Scapa Flow is an internationally renowned diving site due to the number of scuttled war ships which are located on its seabed.
It's almost 80 years since the end of World War Two, during which Orkney became home to hundreds of Italian prisoners of war.
Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 August, 1917. It was seen as marking the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers.
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