Hackness Battery, Scapa Flow, Hoy, Orkney - Fotografía de stock

180 degree panorama of this Napoleonic War defence system, Scapa Flow, Hoy, Orkney, Britain.Hackness Battery is a gun emplacement overlooking the entrance to a bay used for repair and marshalling of ships in this area of north coast where the fleet found safe harbour. It is made from stone wall and earth embankment with gunpowder and munition stores. Image made in April, before the grass begins its annual growth. Well preserved historic war time site. The site overlooks part of Flotta Oil Terminal. Scapa Flow is well known for scuba diving due to the number of scuttled German ships from the war and as the location of the war grave HMS Royal Oak.