Copinsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying off the east coast of the Orkney Mainland. The smaller companion island to Copinsay, Horse of Copinsay lies to the northeast. The Horse is uninhabited, and is managed as a bird reserve. Copinsay is also home to a lighthouse.
Southwards from the eastern edge of the Horse of Copinsay. Copinsay lighthouse is on the high ground in the distance.
Copinsay Lighthouse in 2005
Deerness is a quoad sacra parish and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St. Andrews and Deerness. There is a shop/post office and a community centre and the Deerness Distillery.
Brough of Deerness showing the remains of the chapel
Covenanters' monument detail
Covenanters' Memorial, Deerness. A memorial to 200 covenanters who drowned when their prison ship foundered in a storm.