Where would you find the Orkney Islands?

奥克尼群岛在以下哪个地方？

You see, the Orkney Islands are a sparsely-populated archipelago.

奥克尼群岛是个人烟稀少的群岛。

On March 15 we passed beyond the latitude of the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands.

3月15日，南设德兰群岛和南奥克内群岛的纬度走过了。

The area includes parts of the end of the Scottish peninsula as well as the Orkney Islands.

该地区包括苏格兰半岛末端的部分地区以及奥克尼群岛。

Which of these island chains is located the farthest north? Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands, Canary Islands or Azores.

以下哪个群岛中最靠北？设得兰群岛，奥克尼群岛，加那利群岛还是亚速尔群岛。

Another version of a mermaid-like creatures, called Selkies, are found in the remote Orkney Islands, north of the Scottish mainland.

在苏格兰大陆北部偏远的奥克尼群岛，人们发现了另一种类似美人鱼的生物——塞尔基。

And, as the picture shows, sheep on North Ronaldsay, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, still graze on the stuff.

如图所示，在苏格兰奥克尼群岛的北罗纳德赛岛上，羊仍然以这种东西为食。

Past research has shown cultural connections - such as similarities in pottery making - between the area around Stonehenge and Scotland's Orkney Islands.

过去的研究表明，巨石阵周围地区和苏格兰奥克尼群岛之间存在文化联系，比如陶器制作方面的相似性。

The Orkney Islands lay north of mainland Scotland and are home to about 21,000 people.

奥克尼群岛位于苏格兰大陆北部， 居住着大约 21, 000 人。

The northern part of the structure would be a collection of island hopping dams that originate in mainland Scotland and stretches from there out to the Orkney Islands.

该结构的北部将是一组跳岛式大坝，它们起始于苏格兰大陆，从那里一直延伸到奥克尼群岛。

The Ness of Brodgar is an ancient collection of structures found in the Orkney islands north of the Scottish mainland.

Ness of Brodgar 是在苏格兰大陆北部的奥克尼群岛发现的古老建筑群。

Reporters from around the world watched remotely as Orkney Islands Council voted to study other " models of governance" for the island group, which has a population of 22,000 people.

来自世界各地的记者远程观看了奥克尼群岛议会投票决定为这个拥有2.2万人口的岛屿研究其他“治理模式”的过程。

We'll venture from Oban to Iona and Staffa; then, Skye; and then, in the far north, sail to the Orkney Islands.

我们将从奥本冒险到爱奥那和斯塔法；那么，斯凯；然后，在遥远的北方，航行到奥克尼群岛。

The Orkney Islands, perched an hour's ferry ride north of the mainland, are remote, historic, and, for the right traveler, worth the effort.

奥克尼群岛距离大陆北部有一个小时的渡轮航程，地处偏远，历史悠久，而且对于合适的旅行者来说，值得一游。

On 17 January I left Edinburgh for the Orkney Islands, to spend a week standing in for one of the nurse practitioners on an island with a population of just 300 and, thankfully, no coronavirus.

1月17日，我离开爱丁堡，前往奥克尼群岛，在一个只有300人、幸运的是没有新冠病毒的岛屿上代替一名执业护士度过了一周。

We're talking about an unmanned aerial vehicle, a small plane that flies without a pilot to an airport in one of the Orkney Islands where a human postal worker would then get its cargo and deliver it to houses.

而是无人驾驶飞行器，它是一种小型飞机，可以在没有飞行员的情况下飞到奥克尼群岛的一个机场，到了那里再由邮递员取货然后送货上门。