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Sinclairs Bay

Coordinates: 58°30′20.5848″N 3°05′38.7960″W / 58.505718000°N 3.094110000°W / 58.505718000; -3.094110000
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Sinclair's Bay
Noss Head, lighthouse from across Sinclair's Bay
Sinclair's Bay is located in Caithness
Sinclair's Bay
Sinclair's Bay
LocationCaithness, Scotland
Coordinates58°30′20.5848″N 3°05′38.7960″W / 58.505718000°N 3.094110000°W / 58.505718000; -3.094110000
River sourcesRiver of Wester
Ocean/sea sourcesNorth Sea
Basin countriesScotland
Max. length9.45 km (5.87 mi)
Max. width3.51 km (2.18 mi)
Average depth16.2 metres (53 ft)

Sinclairs Bay is a bay on the eastern coast of Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands.[1]

Geography

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Starting in the north, at Ness Head, the bay is bounded by Freswick Bay, and overlooked by Skirza Head, the bay proper sweeps south in a long elliptical curve, before sweeping east to pass the remains Castle Sinclair[2] and terminating at Noss Head Lighthouse.[3]

Sinclairs Bay has two primary geological features. Starting at the coastal village of Keiss, running northeast, a stony beach and coastal crags, become cliffs that are increasingly sheer the further north. South of Keiss, the cliffs even out in a large white sandy beach, called Keiss Beach, forming large Dunes of Reiss Beach further south. At Ackergill Tower, the beach again becomes stony and eventually forms into a series of cliffs and crags, further east.

References

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  1. ^ Robert Sinclair (12 June 2013). The Sinclairs of Scotland. AuthorHouse. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4817-9623-1. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Castle Sinclair". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  3. ^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Noss Head". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.