Stromness
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Stromness town, on Mainland island, Orkney Islands, N Scotland. It has a harbor with shipyards and docks. Eggs are exported. In the 18th and 19th cent., Stromness was a whaling center and a port of call for the Hudson's Bay Company. A well-known museum of Orkney antiquities is there.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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