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Orkney Islands

archipelago, county and council area in northern Scotland

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 59.0000, -3.0000

Orkney Islands is where 1 video game is set, according to its Wikipedia article — Wikidata records their setting only as the country. Nothing on this atlas was filmed here.

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Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Orkney Islands, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement — two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 2017
“Set in the late 8th century, the game starts with Senua (Melina Juergens), a Pict warrior from Orkney arriving at the secret entrance to Helheim in a quest to save the soul of her dead lover, Dillion (Oliver Walker), from the goddess Hela.” Wikipedia

Other filming locations in the United Kingdom

Frequently asked questions

Was anything filmed in Orkney Islands?

No. 1 video game is set there, and nothing drawn or rendered is filmed anywhere. This page is about where the story happens.

Where is Orkney Islands?

Orkney Islands is in the United Kingdom, at 59.0000, -3.0000.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.