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| rdfs:label | - Scapa Flow
- Scapa Flow
- Scapa Flow
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| rdfs:comment | - Scapa Flow was the main port of the British Home Fleet, and the pride of the United Kingdom. In January 1941, as an act of retaliation for the Big Switch of 1940, the Soviet Air Force based out of Murmansk launched a hit and run raid on the harbour, fleeing before the RAF could give chase. Radio Moscow claimed the raid inflicted heavy damage while a Royal Navy spokes man was quoted in The Times as saying these claims were "greatly exaggerated."
- Scapa Flow – zatoka na Orkadach, w Szkocji. Dawniej jedna z najważniejszych baz Royal Navy (marynarki wojennej), zlikwidowana w 1956 roku. Na obszarze zatoki znajduje się wrak pancernika HMS Royal Oak zatopionego w 1939 roku wraz z większością załogi na pokładzie.
- Scapa Flow was the location of the destruction of the British Navy by the flagship Volga on 3 January 1999.
- Scapa Flow is an epicenter of magical activity, with many sites of power and ancient henges nearby. For this reason, a Hermetic Covenant, also called Scapa Flow, was founded on Hoy in 821, claiming all of the Orkneys.
- The Viking expeditions to Orkney are recorded in detail in the 11th century Orkneyinga sagas and later texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, King Haakon IV of Norway anchored his fleet, including the flagship Kroussden that could carry nearly 300 men, on 5 August 1263 at St Margaret's Hope, where he witnessed an eclipse of the sun prior to sailing south to the Battle of Largs. En route back to Norway Haakon anchored some of his fleet in Scapa Flow for the winter, but he died that December whilst staying at the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall. In the 15th century towards the end of Norse rule in Orkney, the islands were run by the jarls from large manor farms, some of which were sited at Burray, Burwick, Paplay, Hoy, and Cairston (near Stromness) to guard the ent
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| abstract | - Scapa Flow was the main port of the British Home Fleet, and the pride of the United Kingdom. In January 1941, as an act of retaliation for the Big Switch of 1940, the Soviet Air Force based out of Murmansk launched a hit and run raid on the harbour, fleeing before the RAF could give chase. Radio Moscow claimed the raid inflicted heavy damage while a Royal Navy spokes man was quoted in The Times as saying these claims were "greatly exaggerated."
- The Viking expeditions to Orkney are recorded in detail in the 11th century Orkneyinga sagas and later texts such as the Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar. According to the latter, King Haakon IV of Norway anchored his fleet, including the flagship Kroussden that could carry nearly 300 men, on 5 August 1263 at St Margaret's Hope, where he witnessed an eclipse of the sun prior to sailing south to the Battle of Largs. En route back to Norway Haakon anchored some of his fleet in Scapa Flow for the winter, but he died that December whilst staying at the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall. In the 15th century towards the end of Norse rule in Orkney, the islands were run by the jarls from large manor farms, some of which were sited at Burray, Burwick, Paplay, Hoy, and Cairston (near Stromness) to guard the entrances to the Flow.
- Scapa Flow – zatoka na Orkadach, w Szkocji. Dawniej jedna z najważniejszych baz Royal Navy (marynarki wojennej), zlikwidowana w 1956 roku. Na obszarze zatoki znajduje się wrak pancernika HMS Royal Oak zatopionego w 1939 roku wraz z większością załogi na pokładzie.
- Scapa Flow was the location of the destruction of the British Navy by the flagship Volga on 3 January 1999.
- Scapa Flow is an epicenter of magical activity, with many sites of power and ancient henges nearby. For this reason, a Hermetic Covenant, also called Scapa Flow, was founded on Hoy in 821, claiming all of the Orkneys.
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