Hoy

Is the hilly island. A good walk is from Rackwick, over to the Old Man of Hoy, along the cliffs over St. John's Head (the highest sea cliffs in the United Kingdom) and over Cuilags and then down and up onto Ward Hill, at 479m the highest hill on the Orkney Isles. The walk gives good views over the other islands, as well as accross to Caithness and nothern Sutherland on the Scottish Mainland.

At the far end of Hoy is Lyness, where there is a good war museum about Scapa Flow in the first and second world wars.