Orcades (islands)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 08, 2022 06:34 AM
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History
Orcades Inss. (The Orkney Islands), an archipelago of northern Scotland comprised of ca. 70 islands.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89261
59.0221806311, -3.21733603681
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- Orcades (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Orkney Islands (English, modern)
- Ὀρκάδες νῆσοι (Orkádes: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Barnhouse Settlement connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Maes Howe connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Midhowe connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Ness of Brodgar connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Ring of Brodgar connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Skara Brae connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Standing Stones of Stenness connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
- Unstan Chambered Cairn connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)
archipelago, island group
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E1 Orcades Inss.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Orkney Iss.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Orcades (islands): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89261> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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