A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years.

You can travel to the Orkney Campus by ferry (Aberdeen to Kirkwall, Scrabster to Stromness or Gill's Bay to St Margaret's ...

The isolated archipelago of Orkney's 70 islands (of which 20 are inhabited) lies off the northeast coast near the tip of Scotland. These nearly treeless islands were of great strategic importance ...

Scotland’s treasure trove of more than ... and that is not even mentioning the 100 or so Shetland Islands, nor the 70 or so Orkney Islands. I’ve spent the last 20 years as a travel writer ...