Stromness is also the title of a 2009 novel by Herbert Wetterauer.
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Stromness is referenced in the title of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's popular piano piece Farewell to Stromness, a piano interlude from The Yellow Cake Revue, which was written to protest at plans to open a uranium mine in the area.
It was composed in 1980, in the aftermath of the publication of a report (commissioned by the Secretary of State for Scotland into the possibility of mining uranium ('yellow cake')) which had been discovered near the town of Stromness in Orkney.
As with Leith, Stromness, and Prince Olav Harbour, the whaling station has been declared by the South Georgia Government as being too dangerous to visit, due to the danger from collapsing buildings and asbestos.
The work was premiered at the Stromness Hotel as part of the 1980 St Magnus Festival with Eleanor Bron as the reciter, accompanied by the composer.