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== Today == ===Use by the petroleum industry=== [[image:Tankers in Scapa Flow - Mainland Orkney - kingsley - 29-JUN-09.JPG|right|thumb|Petroleum tankers wait at anchor in Scapa Flow. The calm waters, relative to the [[North Sea]], provide a safe harbour for the oil terminal at [[Flotta]]]] Scapa Flow is one of the transfer and processing points for [[North Sea oil]]. An underwater pipeline with a diameter of {{convert|30|in|cm}} and a length of {{convert|128|mi|km}} transports oil from the [[Piper oilfield]] to the [[Flotta oil terminal]]. The Claymore and Tartan oil fields also feed into this line. === Scapa Flow Visitor Centre === [[Image:ScapaFlowVisitorCentreRLH.jpg|thumb|Scapa Flow Visitor Centre, [[Hoy, Orkney|Hoy]]]] The Scapa Flow Visitor Centre is at [[Lyness]] on Hoy (from ''HΓ‘ey'' meaning high island) the second largest of Orkney. Morning to evening ferries run from [[Houton]] on the Mainland. The Visitor Centre occupies a converted naval fuel pumping station and storage tank and next to it is a round stone-built battery emplacement and artillery gun as well as other decommissioned arsenal. It features a large model of the island, Scapa Flow and of the German warships. [[Scapa distillery]], a [[Scotch whisky]] [[distillation|distillery]] is located on the shore.<ref name="Maclean">{{cite book |last=Maclean |first=Charles |date=2016 |title=Whiskypedia. A Gazetteer of Scotch Whisky |location=Edinburgh |publisher= Birlinn|pages=320β321 |isbn=978-1-78027-401-0}}</ref>
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