A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, topographic map of the region in almost 40 years.

Sick of being ignored by far-away politicians, officials on Scotland’s remote Orkney Islands are mulling a drastic solution: rejoining Norway, the Scandinavian country that gave them away as a ...

For more than 600 years, the Orkney ... over the islands for nearly 20 years. One of his successors, the one-eyed Torf-Einar, is said to have ordered his men to carve the outline of an eagle ...

decided the islands’ “rude” and “silly” names weren’t getting the attention they deserved. So he spent a year producing new maps of Orkney and Shetland, with just the names that amused ...