Stromness is the second-most heavily populated community in Orkney, Scotland. It is in the southwestern part of Landmass Orkney. It is a burgh with a parish around the outdoors with the community of Stromness as its funding. A long-established seaport, Stromness has a population of about 2,190 homeowners. The old town is clustered along the characterful and winding primary road, flanked by houses as well as shops constructed from local stone, with narrow lanes and also streets branching off it. There is a ferry web link from Stromness to Scrabster on the north coast of mainland Scotland. First recorded as the site of an inn in the 16th century, Stromness came to be essential throughout the late seventeenth century, when Great Britain was at battle with France as well as delivery was required to avoid the English Channel. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular site visitors, as were whaling fleets. Lots of Orkneymen, a lot of whom came from the Stromness area, worked as investors, travelers and seafarers for both. Captain Cook's ships, Discovery and also Resolution, called at the town in 1780 on their return trip from the Hawaiian Islands, where Captain Cook had actually been eliminated. Stromness Museum mirrors these aspects of the town's history (displaying as an example important collections of whaling antiques, and Inuit artefacts brought back as keepsakes by neighborhood males from Greenland and also Arctic Canada). An unusual element of the town's personality is the multitude of structures embellished with displays of whale bones outside them. At Stromness Pierhead is a commemorative statue by North Ronaldsay sculptor Ian Scott, revealed in 2013, of John Rae standing erect, with an inscription describing him as "the discoverer of the final link in the first navigable Northwest Passage".