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Dramatic weather over Scapa Flow and the island of Hoy, Orkney Islands.
DWP Catalogue No:
OR030
Caption: Scapa Flow from Old Norse Skalpaflói 'bay of the long isthmus') is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. Vikings anchored their longships in Scapa Flow more than a thousand years ago. It was the United Kingdom's chief naval base during the First and Second World wars
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