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• Scapa Flow
  ...pa Flow - Churchill Barrier 1 - kingsley - 29-JUN-09.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Scapa Flow, from its eastern end]] [[File:Scapa Flow.svg|thumb|200px|Scapa Flow location map]]
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• Orkney
  ...ice in 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was transferred in its entirety to Scapa Flow while a decision was to be made on its future; however, the German sai ...the Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Royal Oak'' was sunk by a German U-boat in Scapa Flow. As a result, barriers were built to close most of the access channels
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• Stromness
  ...l]]. It stands in the south-west of [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] where [[Scapa Flow]] opens to the Atlantic Ocean in Hoy Sound.
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• Plymouth
  ....htm</ref> Although major units of the Royal Navy moved to the safety of [[Scapa Flow]], Devonport was an important base for escort vessels and repairs. Fly
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• Hoy
  The main naval base for the British fleet Scapa Flow in both the First and Second World Wars was situated at [[Lyness]] in File:ScapaFlowVisitorCentreRLH.jpg| Scapa Flow Visitor Centre
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• Beith
  ===Scapa Cottage=== ...p://www.beith.org/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=21|title=Details of Scapa Cottage|publisher=}}</ref>
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• Kirkwall
  ...h and south leaving a narrow gap between Kirkwall on the north coast and [[Scapa]] on the south. Though a mighty town in the context of the islands, Kirkwa ...nd the Lang, or Mackinson's Corner at the junction of Main Street with New Scapa Road. Once ''Up'' or ''Doon'', an individual winner is acclaimed, after muc
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• Swona
  ...ur, Stroma, belongs to Caithness. Swona lies in the southern approach to [[Scapa Flow]], west of [[South Ronaldsay]].
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• Lamb Holm
  Lamb Holm lies in Holm Sound, one of the eastern entrances to [[Scapa Flow]], between [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] and the island of [[Burray]], ...ilding the Churchill Barriers, four causeways created to block access to [[Scapa Flow]].
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• South Ronaldsay
  |picture caption=Across South Ronaldsay and over Scapa Flow
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• Mainland, Orkney
  ...ave access to both the southern and northern Orkney Islands. and also to [[Scapa Flow]] to the south, one of the world's great natural harbours. Kirkwall wa ...entered Scapa Flow through Holm Sound, one of several eastern entrances to Scapa Flow. To prevent further attacks, Winston Churchill ordered the constructio
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• Scapa Flow
  ...pa Flow - Churchill Barrier 1 - kingsley - 29-JUN-09.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Scapa Flow, from its eastern end]] [[File:Scapa Flow.svg|thumb|200px|Scapa Flow location map]]
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• Burray
  '''Burray''' is and island of [[Orkney]], which lies to the east of [[Scapa Flow]] and is one of a chain of islands linked by the [[Churchill Barriers] ...dal island of [[Hunda]], also joined by a causeway. Further west, across [[Scapa Flow]], are the islands of [[Flotta]] and [[Calf of Flotta]], approximately
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• Churchill Barriers
  ...ilt in the 1940s primarily as naval defences to protect the anchorage at [[Scapa Flow]], but now serve as road links, carrying the A961 road from [[Kirkwall ...attack on the unsuspecting Royal Navy battleship while it was at anchor in Scapa Flow. The ''U-47'' then escaped seaward using the same channel by navigatin
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• Eday
  ...th Walls|Walls]], Stronsay and the west [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]]) and Scapa in [[St Ola]] which is derived from the Norse ''Skálpeið''.<ref>Waugh (20
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• Flotta
  '''Flotta''' is a small island in [[Orkney]], lying in [[Scapa Flow]]. The island is known for and dominated by its large oil terminal. ...dressmakers. But everything changed with the arrival of the Royal Navy in Scapa Flow at the start of First World War. There is a photograph held by the Imp
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• Graemsay
  ...sland amongst the [[Orkney]] islands, lying in the western approaches to [[Scapa Flow]], which is to say the main entrance for ferries. The island has two l ...d World War. This is a common feature of the straits/former straits around Scapa Flow
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• Shapinsay
  ...xt/NorthIslesDiving.htm#swiftsure "North Isles and beyond Wreck Database"] Scapa Flow Charters. Retrieved 13 October 2007</ref>
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• South Walls
  ...the islands, and told him the news. Then the Earls moved their ships to [[Scapa]], and Earl Rögnvald wished them to stay a while on board. ...nd’’ [South Walls] in Orkney. There they heard the Earls were lying at Scapa, off [[Knarston]] with thirteen ships... It was four nights before Simon's-
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• Cape Wrath
  On 27 September 1915, while sailing for Scapa Flow, HMS ''Caribbean'' (known as ''Dunottar Castle'' before being requisit
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• Loch Ewe
  |work=And So...: A Stoker's Story - from Scapa to Crete, Stalag and Home ...It was much further from Norway than the Navy's main base at [[Scapa Flow|Scapa Floe]], thus inconvenient for German bombers (who would have been at the li
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• Dunnet Head
  ...ortifications built during Second World War to protect the naval base at [[Scapa Flow]], including a Chain Home Low radar station and a bunker used by the R
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• Rosyth
  ...hips scrapped there include the Mauretania and much of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow. Ships listed with owners and dates sold.</ref>
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• Glimps Holm
  |island group=Scapa Flow The island lies in Holm Sound, one of the eastern entrances to [[Scapa Flow]], between [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] and the island of [[Burray]].
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• Calf of Flotta
  '''The Calf of Flotta''' is a small island lying within [[Scapa Flow]], in [[Orkney]]. The Calf lies beside [[Flotta]]; 'Calf' is a Norn de
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• Fara
  '''Fara''' is a small island in [[Orkney]], lying in [[Scapa Flow]] between the islands of [[Flotta]] and [[Hoy]]. It has been uninhabi
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• Cava
  The island lies in [[Scapa Flow]] just offshore from the much larger island of [[Hoy]]. Nearby are the
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• Hunda
  ...urface craft as part of the boom defences barring the western entrances to Scapa Flow. Burray in turn is joined to [[Mainland, Orkney|Mainland]] by way of
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• Rysa Little
  The island lies in [[Scapa Flow]], just off the shore of the much larger island of [[Hoy]]. Nearby it
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• Old Man of Hoy
  ..._landscape/geology/the_old_man_of_hoy |title=The Old Man of Hoy |publisher=Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme |accessdate=25 January 2014}}</ref><ref n
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• Portland Harbour
  ...e. In 1914 the Grand Fleet assembled in Portland Harbour before sailing to Scapa Flow. A further barrier against submarine attack came in 1914 when the batt
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• Kirkwall Airport
  ...built and commissioned in 1940 as RAF Grimsetter for the defence of the [[Scapa Flow]] naval base. In 1943 the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm took over, as RNA
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• Charlestown, Fife
  ...as ship-breaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after First World War to be broken up.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buxton |f
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