Tag: Hoy

  • Yellow Cake Revisted

    Yellow Cake Revisted

    Yellow Cake Revisited: Peter Maxwell Davies and the Orkney anti-uranium mining campaign.

  • HMS Pheasant 1917

    HMS Pheasant 1917

    The Orkney News team are seeking funding to make a documentary focussing on the untold story of the crew of HMS Pheasant, lost during WW1 off Orkney.

  • Hoy

    Hoy

    Photographs of Hoy Hoy is the hilliest island in Orkney. The name means “high island” from the Old Norse word haey. Ward Hill stands 479m tall and is quite a tough climb, there being no well-trodden path and potentially many hostile nesting bonxies! The island has a seemingly unpredictable weather system which can catch travelers…