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Marwick Head, Orkney.

The monument is the Kitchener Memorial and the headland in the distance is the Brough of Birsay. The memorial was erected in memory of the sinking of HMS Hampshire after striking a German mine in June 1916; 737 sailors were killed and 12 survived.

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