Whitehall is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 59.1400°, -2.6020°.

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Whitehall

Whitehall in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.

Stronsay, the Royal Bank of Scotland - geograph.org.uk - 4713628 — Chris Downer — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 30 min–1 h
Best time of year: Summer

Whitehall is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Whitehall is the village on the island of Stronsay, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It is a small village with about 50 houses. It also has a shop, a café and heritage centre, known as the Fish Mart; the Stronsay Hotel, with attached pub; a post office, a fisherman's pier and a ferry pier.

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Background

History

Whitehall is a former boom town, whose historical growth and decline has been linked to that of the herring industry, which was initially developed by the Dutch. It takes its name from a house built in the 1670s by Patrick Fea, a retired privateer, whose descendant John Fea pioneered the kelp burning industry on the island in 1722. The fall of the herring industry came with overfishing, and the outbreak of World War II. There was also a similar decline during World War I, but a brief rebirth in the interbellum. Until then it had been the biggest herring port in the northern Orkney Islands, trading mainly with the Baltic ports. At its height, 300 boats were moored in Whitehall harbour, along…

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