Encyclopedia > Pentland Firth

  Article Content

Pentland Firth

The Pentland Firth, which is actually more like a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from the northern tip of the Scottish Highland region around Caithness[?].

On the southern (Caithness) shore is the town of Thurso[?], the port of Scrabster[?], the famous John o' Groats, Mey (site of the Castle of Mey), along with many smaller villages. The headland[?] of Dunnet Head, which protrudes into the Pentland Firth, is the most northerly point on mainland Scotland.

In the middle of the Pentland Firth are two significant islands, Stroma[?] and Swona[?], with the small Pentland Skerries group in the east. The islands of Hoy and South Ronaldsay[?] border the firth to the north and are part of the Orkney Islands.

One ferry runs from Scrabster in Caithness[?] to Stromness on the Orkney Mainland, running along the western fringes of the Pentland Firth, while another runs from Gills Bay near John o' Groats to South Ronaldsay.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Photosynthesis

... of oxygen as a tracer label to follow the fate of oxygen atoms during photosynthesis. Light-dependant reaction The first stage of the photosynthetic system is ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 40.5 ms