The Orkney Islands

The Orkney Islands.

"The member from the Orkneys" is the only man in the British House of Commons who can say he sits for 200 islands. Only sixty of the islands are inhabited, but the constituency embraces more than 60,000 people.

The Orkneys were once given by Norway to England as security for a queen's dower and never redeemed. In the islands the voters must go to the polls by boats and in some cases the distance to be traveled is eight miles.