Strait between the Orkney Islands and Caithness in the north of Scotland
Pentland Firth
Looking across the waters of the Pentland Firth to the island of Hoy in Orkney
Pentland Firth
Location in Scotland
Location
Scotland, UK
Coordinates
58°42′N3°12′W / 58.7°N 3.2°W / 58.7; -3.2
The Pentland Firth (Scottish Gaelic: An Caol Arcach, meaning the Orcadian Strait) is a strait which separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland. Despite the name, it is not a firth.
The PentlandFirth (Scottish Gaelic: An Caol Arcach, meaning the Orcadian Strait) is a strait which separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the...
the Solway Firth and the Moray Firth are more like extremely large bays. The PentlandFirth is a strait rather than a bay or an inlet. Firth of Lorn (connects...
the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth. The PentlandFirth has its eastern mouth at the Moray Firth's northern boundary. The Moray Firth is effectively...
turbines. Tides are more predictable than wave power or wind power. The PentlandFirth (a strait) may be capable of generating 10 GW. Cook Strait in New Zealand...
Swona is an uninhabited privately owned island in the PentlandFirth off the north coast of Scotland. It has a herd of feral cattle resulting from the...
to Pentland Ferries, renamed Orcadia, and converted for ferry services work with the renewable energy sector around Orkney and the PentlandFirth. In...
Stroma is an uninhabited island in the PentlandFirth, between Orkney and the mainland of Scotland. It forms part of the civil parish of Canisbay in Caithness...
catamaran ferry, MV Pentalina, was built in the Philippines for the PentlandFirth, where it entered service in March 2009. The ferry has a capacity of...
Head. Dunnet Head can be seen also as the western limit of the PentlandFirth on the firth's southern, or Caithness, side (Duncansby Head is the eastern...
Line). Across the PentlandFirth, ferries link Caithness with Orkney, and Caithness also has an airport at Wick. The PentlandFirth island of Stroma is...
or Castlelaw). The name is completely unrelated to the name of the PentlandFirth in the north of Scotland. Timothy Pont mapped the area in the 1590s...
Pentland Skerries that lie off the north coast of Scotland. It is home to the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse. Muckle Skerry lies in the PentlandFirth at...
whirlpools in the world. Other strong tides are to be found in the PentlandFirth between mainland Scotland and Orkney, and another example is the "Grey...
Joseph "Pentland" Firth CMG (25 March 1859 – 13 April 1931) was a New Zealand educationalist and teacher. He was the headmaster of Wellington College...
Pentland may refer to: In Scotland: PentlandFirth, a strait between Orkney and Caithness in the far north Pentland Skerries, a group of islands lying...
energy plant in the north of Scotland. The project is located in the PentlandFirth, specifically the Inner Sound between the Island of Stroma and the Scottish...
passenger ferry, built in 2002 and operated by NorthLink Ferries across the PentlandFirth from the mainland of Scotland to the Orkney Islands. The ship, with...
October 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2023. "Pentland Ferries' new catamaran set to make inaugural voyage across firth". John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier...
Cemfjord was a Cyprus-registered cargo ship which foundered in the PentlandFirth off the north-east coast of Scotland on 2 January 2015. Built as the...
construction on MeyGen, Europe's largest tidal power project in the PentlandFirth. On 20 February 2017, the company announced that it had completed the...
Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, connecting to the Atlantic via the PentlandFirth in the last glaciation (of over 300,000 years) is a necessary pre-condition...
(55 km) River Thurso flows through the town and into Thurso Bay and the PentlandFirth. The river estuary serves as a small harbour. At the 2011 Census, Thurso...
hours. Currently the NorthLink fleet consists of: MV Hamnavoe, on the PentlandFirth route, 112 m long MV Hjaltland and MV Hrossey, sister ships, on the...
Haraldsson in 1028. Unfortunately, he was drowned in a shipwreck in the PentlandFirth (between the Orkney Islands and the mainland coast) either late 1029...
stationed in the PentlandFirth, which the Grand Fleet was likely to cross when leaving Scapa Flow, while the remainder proceeded to the Firth of Forth, awaiting...
coast, and the Cromarty Firth, Moray Firth, Firth of Tay, and Firth of Forth on the east coast. The PentlandFirth is not an inlet, but the strait that separates...
former employee of Target. The introduction of "EASY Shopper" in 2019 by PentlandFirth Software GmbH in partnership with the German retailer EDEKA represents...
PentlandFirth, the idea of a tunnel has lost ground, though there have been discussions of the construction of a bridge over the top of a Pentland Tidal...
The Pentland Skerries (Old Norse: Pettlandssker) are a group of four uninhabited islands lying in the PentlandFirth, northeast of Duncansby Head and south...
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