The fact that this great stately edifice was constructed on orkney , an island that has become a byword for remoteness , makes the site 's discovery all the more remarkable .
事实是这座伟大的建筑就在奥克尼这个岛上建成,是对人们偏见的一个有力回击,这也使该发现更为人所知。
The leading test centre is in orkney , off north-east scotland , where the winds blow and the tides race as in few other places .
主要的测试中心在苏格兰东北海域的奥克尼岛,很少有地方象这里那样风吹潮涌。
Most of them occurred on the first two days , when stormy weather forced the captain to abandon plans to visit orkney and shetland , and make a run for the calmer waters of the norwegian fjords .
Photograph by paul sutherland archaeology received a gift from nature in 1850 , when a strong storm hit the orkney islands , stripping away sand dunes and uncovering the remains of the skara brae settlement .
Having finished mapping the 18th century new lanark mills in scotland , rossyln chapel and mt. rushmore in the u. s. , the team has begun scanning the neolithic sites on orkney off northernmost scotland .
One is that the people of the orkney islands , to the north of scotland , share some ancestry with siberians , possibly because some ancestors of modern orcadians ventured to asia via the arctic circle .
The land was surveyed , mapped and known until a recent chance discovery revealed that for all their attention , scientists had completely overlooked a neolithic treasure that utterly eclipses all others on orkney and in the rest of europe .