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  • ...ing it the tenth-largest island in the [[British Isles]]. The largest town and the islands’ capital is [[Kirkwall]] on Mainland.<ref>Lamb, Raymond "Kirk ...ialect and a rich inheritance of folklore. There is an abundance of marine and avian wildlife.
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  • Hoy is connected by a causeway called The Ayre to [[South Walls]]. ...of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the [[British Isles]] and there is said to be a remote possibility that Arctic char survive in Heldal
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  • ...h Ronaldsay]] and [[Hoy]]. It opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the Hoy Sound and the Sound of Hoxa in the south; the eastern sounds were blocked by the Chur ...st known as the site of the Royal Navy's chief base during First World War and Second World War. The base was closed in 1956.
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