Orkney’s Open Door

Come in and make yourself at home. You’ve reached the essential gateway to Orkney and all things Orcadian. Whether you’re planning to visit on business or for pleasure, perhaps you’re hoping to make our green isles your home, or you simply wish to know more about Orkney, then you’ve safely reached your first port of call. This site with its many links is designed to give you a comprehensive, informative and user-friendly profile of Orkney, an ancient scatter of 67 islands anchored securely to the technology of the new century, wind and wave power.

The enchanting Orkney islands lie off the north coast of Scotland and here, where hard work and a willingness to participate prevail, a quality of community life and neighbourliness, unimagined elsewhere, is still achieved,