Confession time: until I went there, I had no idea how close Orkney was to the rest of Scotland, because I'd always seen it in a box next to Shetland.
(As a side note, until I moved up here, I hadn't really clocked how common the phenomenon of the 'headless map' was where some newspaper story is headlined "Y is the Xest place in Britain" while the map alongside it reveals that Y is in fact just the Xest place in England or at a pinch England and Wales).
Given the fact that we largely look at documents online these days, there's not really any excuse for not making all maps included in electronic format documents either scrollable and zoomable, or linked to something scrollable and zoomable, and then Shetland and Orkney can be where they like
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