Alan Gray Clouston (Orphir, Orkney) - For services to the Millennium Celebrations on the Orkney Islands.
Marine Scotland, Orkney Islands Council and Highland Council have set up a working group to take forward the project.
Scottish Power completed preliminary trials of the giant undersea turbine in the fast-flowing coastal waters off the Orkney Islands.
Orkney Islands Council also uses its bunker as a meeting room and has kitted it out with video conferencing equipment.
Scotland's Orkney Islands have the highest rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world, according to a major new study.
From the Orkney Islands to southern Cornwall, 46 communities have been chosen to receive free wi-fi for a minimum of three years.
Orkney Islands Council has called for urgent action after the ferry service to Scrabster was taken out of action due to mechanical problems.
The European marine-energy research centre is located in the Orkney Islands, and plenty of research and development work is being done around the country.
Only Clackmannanshire, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and South Ayrshire local authority areas have shown increases in average property prices compared with the previous year.
He added that some of these factors also held true for the extreme edges of Scotland, while the Orkney islands showed DNA connections to Norway.
In 2011-12, just seven (Angus, City of Edinburgh, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire and Orkney Islands) out of 32 Scottish local authorities employed foreign language assistants.
Then spend your last few days in the Orkney Islands, clustered not far off the mainland and reachable either via a half-day ferry or quick flight to Kirkwall.
The scheme is part of efforts to develop the Pentland Firth and waters surrounding the Orkney Islands in the largest planned wave and tidal generating programme in the world.
Their Atlantic Odyssey cruise is the ultimate in ice vacations, lasting nearly 40 days, with visits to the Antarctic peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands.
Primary school class sizes are smallest in the Western Isles (14 pupils), followed by Shetland Islands and Orkney (both 17).
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