Stroma is an uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth, between Orkney and the mainland of Scotland. It forms part of the civil parish of Canisbay in Caithness...
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Look up stroma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stroma may refer to: Stroma (tissue), the connective, functionally supportive framework of a biological...
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John o' Groats (category Extreme points of the United Kingdom)
from the North Pole; it is 4+1⁄4 mi (6.8 km) from the uninhabited Island of Stroma. In summer, a ferry operates between John o' Groats and Burwick on...
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Caithness (redirect from County of Caithness)
Firth island of Stroma is within Caithness. The name was also used for the earldom of Caithness (c. 1334 onwards) and for the Caithness constituency of the...
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mainland Scotland and the larger islands of Orkney, through which run the strongest tidal streams in Britain. The Island of Stroma is often mistakenly included...
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plant in the north of Scotland. The project is located in the Pentland Firth, specifically the Inner Sound between the Island of Stroma and the Scottish...
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Swona (category Uninhabited islands of Orkney)
earlier Stroma Lighthouse was built in 1896 and stands at the northern end of the Island of Stroma. In summer 1973 Arthur Rosie left the island and died...
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None of these islands are currently inhabited and few of them ever were, although Hirta was occupied from the Neolithic age until 1930 and Stroma was permanently...
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Northern Isles (redirect from History of the Northern Isles)
the main islands of the Orkney and Shetland archipelagos. The Island of Stroma, which lies between mainland Scotland and Orkney, is part of Caithness...
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Dunnet Head (category Headlands of Scotland)
southerly waters of Dunnet Bay. The peninsula is north-east of the burgh of Thurso, and on a clear day, it affords views of the islands of Stroma to the east...
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