St Ola is a parish onMainland, Orkney. It is in the centre of the island, east of the parishFirth and north ofHolm. It contains the capital and largest town of the Orkney archipelago,Kirkwall. Both Kirkwall (Old Norse:kirkjuvagr, church-bay) and St Ola may take their name from the church of St. Olaf, built about 1035 and the remains of which can be seen on Saint Olaf's Wynd in Kirkwall.

Highland Park, the most northerlyScotch whisky distillery, is on the outskirts of Kirkwall.

Several ships of theNorth of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company (laterP&O Scottish Ferries) were namedSt Ola.^[1]

Prof John Tait was born here in 1878.

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