Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup biplane on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 August, 1917. It was seen as marking the dawn of aviation from aircraft carriers.

In 1939, the British battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk by a Nazi U-boat ... series of sea defences in a bid to make the waters around Orkney more secure. More than 1,000 Italian soldiers captured ...

Where HMS Protector’s small hi-tech survey boat ... lump of rock and ice 45km long and the largest isle in the South Orkney chain. It was the first visit to the inhospitable, uninhabited island ...