Orcades

Writing in the 1st century AD, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela called the islands Orcades, as did Tacitus in AD 98, claiming that his father-in-law Agricola had "discovered and subjugated the Orcades hitherto unknown" Tacitus (c. 98) Agricola.

Sylvia Brady with a painting she found in a shop in Queenscliff of the SS Orcades, the boat that she migrated to Australia on.

Thomson (2008) suggests that there may have been an element of Roman "boasting" involved, given that it was known to them that the Orcades lay at the northern extremity of the British Isles.