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Dapre George Mackay Brown, an reta powèt la Stromness ki baze sou ak otè, kay la an premye nan vil la se te yon ostelri sou rivaj la Cairston ki te akòde yon endepandan leta apwouve nan 1580. Pò-a san danje nan Hamnavoe te grandi kòm yon pò ak vil komèsan pandan lagè Ewopeyen yo nan 17th nan 19th syèk sa ki te fè Chèn angle a danjere. Bato ki gen ladan Dekouvèt Kapitèn Cook a ak Rezolisyon rele nan 1780 ak Sir John Franklin rele nan anvan vwayaj fatal l 'yo Arctic la. bato Bay Company Hudson an te ranmase sou moun, dispozisyon ak dlo nan Oke Login la nan vil la nan 18th ak 19th syèk yo ak balenye Arctic soti nan East Coast pò tou te pran sou moun pou lapèch nan balèn nan Greenland ak Islann. moun ki rete pi popilè nan Stromness enkli pent la Sir Stanley Cursiter, Isabel Gunn ki te antre HBC a degize tankou yon gason ak Eliza Fraser ki moun ki te nofraj nan Ostrali. Sir Walter Scott baze plizyè nan karaktè kolore l 'fiktiv sou Stromnessians.
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According to George Mackay Brown, the late Stromness-based poet and author, the first house in the town was a hostelry on the Cairston shore which was granted a charter in 1580. The safe harbour of Hamnavoe grew as a port and merchant town during the European wars in the 17th to 19th centuries which made the English Channel dangerous. Ships including Captain Cook’s Discovery and Resolution called in 1780 and Sir John Franklin called in before his fatal journey to the Arctic. Hudson’s Bay Company ships took on men, provisions and water at Login’s Well in the town in the 18th and 19th centuries and Arctic whalers from East Coast ports also took on men for the whale fishery in Greenland and Iceland. Famous inhabitants of Stromness included the painter Sir Stanley Cursiter, Isabel Gunn who joined the HBC disguised as a man and Eliza Fraser who was shipwrecked in Australia. Sir Walter Scott based several of his colourful fictional characters on Stromnessians.