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Thurso Bay, known also as Scrabster Bay, is a bay of Atlantic water between the points of Clairdon Head and Holborn Head on the north coast of Caithness, Scotland.[1]
The bay receives fresh water from the River Thurso and the Wolf Burn. The river mouth is at the most southerly reach of the bay and at least two kilometres from the more northerly and more open waters of the Atlantic. The Atlantic here has Orkney to the northeast and the Pentland Firth and Dunnet Bay to the east. The points of Clairdon Head and Holborn Head are separated by four or five kilometres of water, which is also the bay's widest extent.
Within the bay, about three kilometres west/northwest of the river mouth, Scrabster harbour has deep water in the shelter of Holborn Head and berths a ferry which links mainland Scotland with Stromness in Orkney. Holborn Head Lighthouse is about one kilometre south of the headland's point and close to Scrabster Harbour.
The river mouth serves now as a small harbour and was a busy commercial port during the 19th century. Tidal water reaches inland about one kilometre beyond the river mouth and about twice the distance usually indicated on Ordnance Survey maps. Sandy beach and the burgh of Thurso front the bay west of the river mouth.
Wolf Burn enters the bay at Burnside, midway between the river mouth and Scrabster Harbour.
ThursoBay, known also as Scrabster Bay, is a bay of Atlantic water between the points of Clairdon Head and Holborn Head on the north coast of Caithness...
River Thurso flows through the town and into ThursoBay and the Pentland Firth. The river estuary serves as a small harbour. At the 2011 Census, Thurso had...
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is a small settlement on ThursoBay in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. It is some 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) from Thurso, 22+1⁄2 miles (36.2 km) from...
marine life. Notable features of the north coast are Sandside Bay, ThursoBay and Dunnet Bay, Dunnet Head (the northernmost point of Britain) and Duncansby...
80 km) north and west of Thurso, and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the village of Scrabster, Highland in Scotland, south of ThursoBay. It is on an eroding...
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mile) south of the point, near Scrabster Harbour on the western shore of ThursoBay, at 58°36′54″N 03°32′24″W / 58.61500°N 3.54000°W / 58.61500; -3.54000...
also to be found on the Caithness side as is the town of Thurso and Scrabster Harbour in ThursoBay, on the western fringe of the Firth. In the West the ferry...
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Thurso railway station is a railway station located in Thurso, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town and its surrounding...
1943 to escort a convoy to Derry, Northern Ireland, Fitch continued to ThursoBay, where on 20 September she embarked Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and...
and shelters the more southerly waters of Dunnet Bay. The peninsula is north-east of the burgh of Thurso, and on a clear day, it affords views of the islands...
off Shetland—perhaps Muckle Flugga or the Outer Skerries—or rocks off ThursoBay. Close connections between the rulers of Orkney and the family of Óláfr...
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west of the station lies a junction of the same name, where the branch to Thurso spurs off northwards; mileages on this branch are measured from the station...
from Hull to London. Delight United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in ThursoBay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Helmsdale, Sutherland...
February 2022. "Lairg to Caithness". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2022. "Thurso to Orkney". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2022. Smith, Ian (4 February...
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