Orkney Uncovered

Orkney Uncovered Private Guided Orkney Tours. Specialising in all areas of Orkney history and the great outdoors. Private Tours based in the Orkney Islands.
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Uncover the mysteries of Scapa Flow, and Wartime Orkney during WWI and WWII. Discover and Explore Orkney's Ancient Past.

Father and son time on a well needed day off tours.
07/06/2026

Father and son time on a well needed day off tours.

Fun fact Orkney Uncovered make no money from the sale of this knitwear. Our share is donated to the RNLI so not only wil...
06/06/2026

Fun fact Orkney Uncovered make no money from the sale of this knitwear. Our share is donated to the RNLI so not only will you get awesome knitwear but you'll be putting money to an essential service. Annie Glue Knitwear does a range for us and for the RNLI Kirkwall Lifeboat so give her page a follow and check out the awesome products!!

Annie Glues webshop here: https://www.annieglue.com/?fbclid=IwVERDUASRYhVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEetOSllYHj04Wd4fr5SgitUwxZgrcuIh8m_0cfVRvi1mpUijIShUrjwDSHPjM_aem_MqufROurxqA18nLNwHwG0g

The Birsay Whalebone has been gone for a number of years now but there is hope of bringing a more permanent memorial ple...
06/06/2026

The Birsay Whalebone has been gone for a number of years now but there is hope of bringing a more permanent memorial please give Birsay Whalebone a follow for updates.

Thank you to our Brand Ambassador Lyndsay Retson for the great shots!

Italian Chapel today.
06/06/2026

Italian Chapel today.

82 years ago was D-Day. Did you know:Orcadians were highly valued as coxswains and commanders of the landing craft. For ...
06/06/2026

82 years ago was D-Day.

Did you know:

Orcadians were highly valued as coxswains and commanders of the landing craft.

For instance, Kirkwall man Gerald Meyer born in 1908. Before the war, he worked in the printing department and bookshop of The Orkney Herald, and later worked in bookshops in London. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Navy, where he served on patrol vessels and destroyers before eventually commanding his own landing craft during the D-Day landings off Normandy

Gerry as he was known was also the editor of Britain’s first wartime forces newspaper ‘The Orkney Blast’.

Growing up surrounded by treacherous waters, many Orcadians had expert seafaring skills and naturally joined the Royal Navy or the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR).

The picture is from the archives at National
WW II Museum New Orleans and shows landing craft and Allied troops arriving at Gold Beach during the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944. This was the sector where British troops, including the 51st (Highland) of which many were Orcadian men.

Exactly 110 years ago 20:30 HMS Hampshire a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser, carrying the Secretary of State for War, ...
05/06/2026

Exactly 110 years ago 20:30 HMS Hampshire a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser, carrying the Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener struck a German mine presumably laid by a U-boat sunk with the loss of 737 souls on board including Kitchener.

12 men survived. There have numerous conspiracy theories. In the 1920s the Kitchener Memorial was erected at Marwick Head to remember Kitchener and his men from the Hampshire.

‘Lest We Forget’.

05/06/2026

Seems odd to advertise this in early summer but the weather here has been all over the place 😂. Visit Annie Glue Knitwear to order yours so you're covered for all the crazy weather.

05/06/2026

Calm and relaxation this evening at Scapa beach.

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Skara Brae structure 1 is one of the oldest and best preserved dwellings in Northwest Europe and dates back to approx 48...
05/06/2026

Skara Brae structure 1 is one of the oldest and best preserved dwellings in Northwest Europe and dates back to approx 4800 years ago in the Neolithic period.

Skara Brae has 10 structures that remain with some of the original buildings dating back to approx 5100 years ago.

The Atlantic would have been further out 5000 years ago.

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