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Stromness Books and Prints1 Graham Place, Stromness, Orkney KW16 3BY, 01856 850565In 1976, Tam McPhail took a job here to tide him over.
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The story behind Farewell to Stromness, his intensely sad and lyrical solo piano piece.
Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies - review 2011
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Whilethree stayed at the coast, Shacketon and other two companions went on to cover 22 miles overland to reach help at Stromness whaling station.
South Georgia 2009
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Mystery surrounds its discovery on a rocky shoreline at Warebeth near the town of Stromness.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Stromness (from 1907 factory ship, land-based station 1913 – 1931, repair yard to 1960/1961)
South Georgia 2009
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A range of mountains, a waterfall, and an uncharted distance over land lay between them and the whaling station at Stromness.
Joy in the Journey of Endurance Joyful Fox 2008
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A third stayed with those who were sick and Shackleton set out for Stromness with the remaining two.
Joy in the Journey of Endurance Joyful Fox 2008
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A third stayed with those who were sick and Shackleton set out for Stromness with the remaining two.
Archive 2008-02-01 Susan 2008
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A range of mountains, a waterfall, and an uncharted distance over land lay between them and the whaling station at Stromness.
Archive 2008-02-01 Susan 2008
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I learned later that men from the whaling – station at Stromness sometimes, go round to
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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