Orkney Islands take you back in time

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: October 30, 2005| Author: Naomi Koppel Associated Press | Copyright information

KIRKWALL, Scotland -- A famous signpost at the Scottish village of John O'Groats marks it as the farthest tip of mainland Britain -- 874 miles from Lands End in Cornwall, the country's most southerly settlement.

But getting here is only the beginning of a journey that takes visitors more than 5,000 years back in time.

The Orkney Islands are at once remote and mysterious yet sophisticated -- transformed by the economic boom that followed the discovery of oil in the North Sea. Yet ...

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