Lerwick → Kirkwall
Lerwick to Kirkwall by ferry
A direct ferry runs from Lerwick to Kirkwall, scheduled from 6 h, with 3 departures in a timetable week.
- Service
- Direct: one sailing, no change
- Scheduled time
- from 6 h
- Departures in a timetable week
- 3
- Operator
- Northlink Ferries
- Stations
- Lerwick Shetland Holmsgarth Ferry Terminal → Kirkwall Orkney Hatston Ferry Terminal
- Straight-line distance
- 166 km
- From the operator's published timetable, valid to 7 Dec 2027. The departure count is for one week of that timetable (the week it was read, early October 2026) and counts every direct departure from Lerwick to Kirkwall; it is not a daily figure.
- The stations shown are the pair used by the most departures; other stations in either place may also be served.
- Source: Open timetable data (GTFS): UK BODS (bus/coach, all operators). How Head Your Way works.
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Direct connections from Kirkwall
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Airports: Kirkwall Airport (KOI); Stronsay Airport (SOY), 26 km away · Ports: Kirkwall Orkney Ferry Terminal; Kirkwall; Kirkwall Orkney Hatston Ferry Terminal
Journeys through Kirkwall
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Cruise itineraries call at Kirkwall and then at: Hamburg, Dublin, Edinburgh, Belfast, Trondheim, Aberdeen, Reykjavík, Greenock, Tórshavn, Oban, Stornoway, Lerwick, Invergordon, Portree and 2 more. A cruise is an itinerary sold as a whole; it is not transport between two ports.