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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg/240px-Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg/360px-Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg/480px-Stromness_-_Orkney_Islands.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a></span><div>A view of Stromness</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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decoding="async" width="240" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Orkney_Islands_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Orkney_Islands_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Orkney_Islands_UK_location_map.svg/480px-Orkney_Islands_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1110" data-file-height="1424" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:56.098%;left:17.391%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Stromness"><img alt="Stromness" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Stromness</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">0.89 km<sup>2</sup> (0.34 sq mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">2,490 (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">Density</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,798/km<sup>2</sup> (7,250/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Stromnessian</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=58.961590~-3.305726&lvl=10&sp=Point.58.961590_-3.305726_Stromness&sty=s&style=s">HY2509</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a></th><td class="infobox-data">208 mi (335 km)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">530 mi (853 km)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Council area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Islands">Orkney Islands</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenancy_areas_of_Scotland" title="Lieutenancy areas of Scotland">Lieutenancy area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Islands">Orkney Islands</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a 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Service">Scottish</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_and_Shetland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)">Orkney and Shetland</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_constituencies_and_electoral_regions" title="Scottish Parliament constituencies and electoral regions">Scottish Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a 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Scotland">Scotland</a></dd> <dd></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Stromness&params=58.96_N_3.3_W_region:GB_type:city(2490)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">58°58′N</span> <span class="longitude">3°18′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">58.96°N 3.3°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">58.96; -3.3</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Stromness</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">locally </span><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>, <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Norse language">Old Norse</a>: <i lang="non">Straumnes</i>; <a href="/wiki/Norn_language" title="Norn language">Norn</a>: <i lang="nrn">Stromnes</i>) is the second-most populous town in <a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. It is in the southwestern part of <a href="/wiki/Mainland,_Orkney" title="Mainland, Orkney">Mainland, Orkney</a>. It is a burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital. In 2001 Stromness was twinned with Royston Vasey. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name "Stromness" comes from the <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <i>Straumnes</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-railwaynames_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railwaynames-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Straumr</i> refers to the strong tides that rip past the Point of Ness through <a href="/wiki/Hoy_Sound" title="Hoy Sound">Hoy Sound</a> to the south of the town. <i>Nes</i> means "headland". Stromness thus means "headland protruding into the tidal stream".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Viking times the anchorage where Stromness now stands was called Hamnavoe.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Town">Town</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A long-established seaport, Stromness has a population of approximately 2,500 residents. The old town is clustered along the characterful and winding main street, flanked by houses and shops built from local stone, with narrow lanes and alleys branching off it. There is a ferry link from Stromness to <a href="/wiki/Scrabster" title="Scrabster">Scrabster</a> on the north coast of mainland <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, and a ferry link from Stromness to <a href="/wiki/Graemsay" title="Graemsay">Graemsay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hoy,_Orkney" title="Hoy, Orkney">Hoy</a>. </p><p>First recorded as the site of an inn in the sixteenth century, Stromness became important during the late seventeenth century, when <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> was at war with <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and shipping was forced to avoid the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a>. Ships of the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> were regular visitors, as were <a href="/wiki/Whaling" title="Whaling">whaling</a> fleets. Large numbers of <a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkneymen</a>, many of whom came from the Stromness area, served as traders, explorers and seamen for both. <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">Captain Cook</a>'s ships, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Discovery_(1774)" title="HMS Discovery (1774)"><i>Discovery</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Resolution_(1771)" title="HMS Resolution (1771)"><i>Resolution</i></a>, called at the town in 1780 on their return voyage from the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a>, where Captain Cook had been killed.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stromness_Museum" title="Stromness Museum">Stromness Museum</a> reflects these aspects of the town's history (displaying for example important collections of <a href="/wiki/Whaling" title="Whaling">whaling</a> relics, and <a href="/wiki/Inuit" title="Inuit">Inuit</a> artefacts brought back as souvenirs by local men from <a href="/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arctic_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Arctic Canada">Arctic Canada</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stromness harbour was rebuilt to the designs of John Barron in 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Stromness Pierhead is a statue by <a href="/wiki/North_Ronaldsay" title="North Ronaldsay">North Ronaldsay</a> sculptor Ian Scott, depicting <a href="/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer)" title="John Rae (explorer)">John Rae</a> standing erect with an inscription describing him as "the discoverer of the final link in the first navigable Northwest Passage", which was unveiled in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Stromness_Lifeboat_Station" title="Stromness Lifeboat Station">Stromness Lifeboat Station</a> is the town’s lifeboat station. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution" title="Royal National Lifeboat Institution">Royal National Lifeboat Institution</a> (RNLI) in 1867.<sup id="cite_ref-History_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-History-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parish">Parish</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Parish"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The parish of Stromness includes the islands of <a href="/wiki/Hoy,_Orkney" title="Hoy, Orkney">Hoy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Graemsay" title="Graemsay">Graemsay</a> in addition to a tract of land about <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>5 by <span class="frac">3<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">3</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span> miles (8.0 by 6.0 kilometres) on <a href="/wiki/Mainland,_Orkney" title="Mainland, Orkney">Mainland, Orkney</a>. The Mainland part is bounded on the west by the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>, on the south and southeast by Hoy Sound, and on the northeast by the <a href="/wiki/Loch_of_Stenness" title="Loch of Stenness">Loch of Stenness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Antiquities include <a href="/wiki/Breckness_House" title="Breckness House">Breckness House</a>, erected in 1633 by <a href="/wiki/George_Graham_(bishop)" title="George Graham (bishop)">George Graham</a>, Bishop of Orkney, at the west entrance of Hoy Sound.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_and_the_arts">Media and the arts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Media and the arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Stromness branch of the <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Library_and_Archive" title="Orkney Library and Archive">Orkney Library and Archive</a> is housed in a building given to the library service in 1905 by Marjory Skea Corrigall.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writer <a href="/wiki/George_Mackay_Brown" title="George Mackay Brown">George Mackay Brown</a> (1921–1996) was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound. His poem "<a href="/wiki/Hamnavoe_(poem)" title="Hamnavoe (poem)">Hamnavoe</a>" is set in the town, and is in part a memorial to his father John, a local postman.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stromness is also named in the title of Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies" title="Peter Maxwell Davies">Peter Maxwell Davies</a>'s popular piano piece "Farewell to Stromness", a piano interlude from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Yellow_Cake_Revue" title="The Yellow Cake Revue">The Yellow Cake Revue</a></i>, which was written in 1980 to protest against plans to open a <a href="/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium">uranium</a> mine in the area. The title refers to <a href="/wiki/Yellowcake" title="Yellowcake">yellowcake</a>, the powder produced in an early stage of the processing of <a href="/wiki/Uranium_ore" title="Uranium ore">uranium ore</a>. The <i>Revue</i> was first performed by the composer at the Stromness Hotel on 21 June 1980, as part of the <a href="/wiki/St_Magnus_Festival" title="St Magnus Festival">St Magnus Festival</a>; plans for the uranium mine were cancelled later that year.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Stromness</i> is also the title of a 2009 novel by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Wetterauer" title="Herbert Wetterauer">Herbert Wetterauer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Stromness plays host to the <a href="/wiki/Pier_Arts_Centre" title="Pier Arts Centre">Pier Arts Centre</a>, a collection of twentieth-century British art given to the people of Orkney by artists such as <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Gardiner_(art_collector)" title="Margaret Gardiner (art collector)">Margaret Gardiner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geology">Geology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stromness presents to the Atlantic a range of cliffs between 100 and 500 feet (30 and 150 metres) high, and to Hoy Sound a band of fertile lowlands. The rocks possess great geological interest, and were made well known by the publication of the evangelical geologist <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Miller" title="Hugh Miller">Hugh Miller</a>, <i>The Footprints of the Creator </i>or<i> The Asterolepsis of Stromness</i> (1849).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stromness&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pier,_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Pier, Strom"><img alt="The Pier, Strom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg/120px-Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg/180px-Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg/240px-Pier%2C_Stromness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1460.jpg 2x" data-file-width="618" data-file-height="454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Pier, Strom</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stromness Museum"><img alt="Stromness Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg/120px-Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg/180px-Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg/240px-Stromness_Museum_2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2983" data-file-height="1989" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Stromness_Museum" title="Stromness Museum">Stromness Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Rae_statue,_Stromness_Pierhead,_Stromness,_Orkney.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Statue of John Rae"><img alt="Statue of John Rae" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg/90px-John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg/135px-John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg/180px-John_Rae_statue%2C_Stromness_Pierhead%2C_Stromness%2C_Orkney.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Statue of <a href="/wiki/John_Rae_(explorer)" title="John Rae (explorer)">John Rae</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stromness_1825.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Stromness in 1825"><img alt="Stromness in 1825" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Stromness_1825.jpg/120px-Stromness_1825.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Stromness_1825.jpg/180px-Stromness_1825.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Stromness_1825.jpg/240px-Stromness_1825.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Stromness in 1825</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Stromness_Harbour.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Stromness Harbour"><img alt="Stromness Harbour" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Stromness_Harbour.JPG/120px-Stromness_Harbour.JPG" decoding="async" 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