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The company is owned by the Orkney Islands Council and was established in 1960 as the Orkney Islands Shipping Company. [1]In 1991, the Orkney Islands Shipping Company acquired a private sector ferry company also called Orkney Ferries, which had been established to compete on the short sea crossing from the Scottish mainland to the Orkney Islands, but which had not succeeded in establishing the ...
Ferries serve both to link Orkney to the rest of Scotland, and also to link together the various islands of the Orkney archipelago. Ferry services operate between Orkney and the Scottish Mainland and Shetland on the following routes: Lerwick to Kirkwall (operated by NorthLink Ferries) Aberdeen to Kirkwall (operated by NorthLink Ferries)
Tingwall Harbour, Orkney Lobster pots on the harbour at Tingwall, Orkney. Tingwall is a farm [1] and ferry terminal that lies on the north-east coast of Orkney's West Mainland on the Gairsay Sound in the parish of Rendall. There is a ferry connection to the islands of Wyre, Rousay and Egilsay. [2]
Orkney (/ ˈ ɔːr k n i /), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago off the north coast of mainland Scotland. The plural name the Orkneys is also sometimes used, but is now considered incorrect. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are ...
NorthLink Ferries (Orkney and Shetland, Scotland) Orkney Ferries (Orkney, Scotland) P&O Ferries (United Kingdom to France; Netherlands, Belgium and Spain) P&O Irish Sea ; Pentland Ferries (Orkney, Scotland) Polferries (the Baltic Sea) Red Funnel (Isle of Wight to mainland England.) Royal Borough of Greenwich (Woolwich Ferry across the River Thames)
Map of places in Orkney compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. Orkney is an archipelago located in the Northern Isles of Scotland. Having been inhabited for nearly 8,500 years, Orkney contains many settlements, hamlet and villages.
NorthLink Ferries (also referred to as Serco NorthLink Ferries [1]) is an operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, as well as ferry services, between mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland. Since July 2012, it has been operated by international services company Serco.
It is the ninth largest of the Orkney Islands with an area of 918 hectares (2,270 acres). The island's population was 90 as recorded by the 2011 census, [3] an increase of over 35% since 2001 when there were only 65 usual residents. [9] During the same period, Scottish island populations as a whole grew by 4% to 103,702. [10]