The incoming tide floods down Hoy Sound from the wild Atlantic Ocean beyond. I absorb the familiar...
Category - Frontiers 2024
Mineral Minds: Orkney’s Geologists Under the Microscope
This year’s Stromness Museum summer exhibition is a delight for everyone with an interest in...
A Letter from North Ronaldsay
A changing world is changing Orkney. One direction may bring new opportunities with energy or food...
The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands
It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough caught on something, and up came a massive stone, long and rectangular.An initial trench revealed the corner of a building, with...
Stones across the sea
Remember where you were when you read it in the papers yesterday, 15 August, just one day after Lammas. It’s a story that changes our whole picture of the Neolithic. Analysis of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge shows that it came...
Geological memories of John
Dr John Flett Brown will be remembered for many things, including so much service to the community. Here his friend and colleague, Dr Adrian Hall, looks back on his life from a geological perspective. Orkney has a long tradition...
A hard day’s work
On 17 January 2023 Ben Weber reached the South Pole after a 58-day, 700-mile trek alone across Antarctic ice and snow. Born in Orkney, where his parents lived in Stronsay and then Stromness, he decided nine years ago to develop a...