History of Orkney should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland. Thus the udal succession and mode of land tenure (that is, absolute freehold as distinguished from feudal tenure) lingered to some extent, and the remaining udallers held their lands and passed them on without written title. The islands cluster round the huge deep-water anchorage of Scapa Flow like a protecting hand, and in both World War I and World War II, the Royal Navy had a major base there, enabling them to challenge any attempt by German warships to emerge into the ocean through the Norwegian Sea. After the Armistice in
Eyalet of the Archipelago Islands. Eyalet of the Archipelago The Eyalet of the Archipelago (, "Eyālet-i Cezāyir-i Baḥr-i Sefīd", "Eyalet of the Islands of the White Sea") was a first-level province (eyalet) of the Ottoman Empire. From its inception until the Tanzimat reforms of the mid-19th century, it was under the personal control of the Kapudan Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman Navy. During the early period of the Ottoman Empire, the commander of the Ottoman fleet (the "Derya Begi", "Bey of the Sea") also held the governorship of the "sanjak" of Gallipoli, which was the principal Ottoman naval base until the construction of