Kirkwall Airport 10 min
Lamb Holm (6 min) Tomb of the Eagles Visitor Centre (28 min) Tomb, eagle, and history The Orkney Museum (14 min) Exhibits & artefacts on the area's history from the Stone Age to present day in a 1570s townhouse. Bishop’s and Earl's Palaces (14 min) Enduring stone ruins of 2 ornate palaces built in the 1100s & in 1606 in the Renaissance-style. Highland Park Whisky Distillery (12 min) Guided tours through an 18th-century, malt-whisky distillery that conclude with a wee dram or two. Copinsay (16 min) St Magnus Cathedral (14 min) Soaring, multi-hued sandstone originally founded by the Vikings, Britain's most northerly cathedral. Orkney Wireless Museum (15 min) Scapa Flow (26 min) Historic waterway with a sandy beach & rustic backdrop known for its many wartime shipwrecks. Italian Chapel (7 min) Catholic chapel built by Italian POWs in the 1940s using scavenged materials, like old ship timbers. Churchill Barriers (6 min) Built to protect the important anchorage at Scapa Flow, this causeways were built in 1939. Flotta (1 hr 28) Balfour Castle (59 min) Castle and architecture Burray (11 min) Orkney archipelago island with guesthouses & heritage centers, plus sailing, diving & canoeing. |