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	Pentland Firth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pentland Firth, which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland.
		The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east.
		The Firth is well known for the strength of its tides, being among some of the fastest in the world, a speed of 16 knots being reported close west of Pentland Skerries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentland_Firth (755 words)

	Pentland Firth - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pentland Firth
		John o' Groats, on the Pentland Firth in the far northeast of Scotland, is often mistakenly thought to be mainland Britain's most northerly point.
		The Pentland Skerries, 8 km/5 mi northeast of Duncansby Head, include two islets, one of which has a lighthouse.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pentland+Firth (159 words)

	Pentland Skerries History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1794, the Commissioners, to open the Pentland Firth to shipping, in place of the longer route round Orkney, provided a double light on the Pentland Skerries at the eastern entrance with 2 towers 80ft and 60ft high and 60ft apart.
		Pentland Skerries in line with Lother Rock, about four miles south-east of her previously reported position.
		The last reporting signal for the TGB was now picked up by Coastguard headquarters, Wick, and a few minutes later she was seen for the last time, again from Pentland Skerries, in Brough Sound, between the Lighthouse and Brough Ness, identified by her stern light and apparently on a north-easterly course.
	www.nlb.org.uk /ourlights/history/pentland.htm (1349 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of islands of Scotland
		The Outer Skerries, often called the Out Skerries or just The Skerries (although this may lead to confusion with the Ve Skerries), are a island group in Shetland, Scotland.
		The island of Stroma, which in the Norse means ‘Island in the Stream’, is the southern of the two islands situated in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland.
		The island of Swona (Norse for “Swains Island”) is the northern of the two islands situated in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-islands-of-Scotland (9053 words)

	Orkney Islands Lighthouses
		The Orkney Islands lie north of the mainland of Scotland, separated from the mainland by the narrow waters of Pentland Firth.
		The Pentland Skerries are small rocky islands obstructing the eastern entrance to Pentland Firth.
		Sule Skerry is a rocky islet with an area of 15 ha (35 acres) about 65 km (40 mi) west of the Orkneys.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/ork.htm (2240 words)

	Pentland Firth - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Pentland Firth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		In the middle of the Pentland Firth are two significant islands, Stroma and Swona, with the small Pentland Skerries group in the east.
		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 St Margaret's Hope on South Ronaldsay.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Pentland-Firth.html (257 words)

	Re: world war 1 HMS Black Opal
		The Pentland Skerries and Stroma lights are sufficient navigational aids for making the eastern entrance to the Firth, and if these lights cannot be seen no vessel should attempt to enter at night.
		From subsequent records it has been ascertained that heavy snow commenced in the neighbourhood of the Pentland Skerries at 1945; the fog signal was started at 1953 and kept sounding throughout the night.
		Pentland Skerries also reported that Duncansby Head fog signal could be heard and was started at 2015.
	genforum.genealogy.com /wwi/messages/4630.html (5040 words)

	Pentland Skerries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pentland Skerries are a group of four uninhabited islands lying in the Pentland Firth, north east of Duncansby Head and south of South Ronaldsay in Scotland.
		By far the largest of the islands is Muckle Skerry, home to a lighthouse.
		The other islands are Little Skerry, Louther Skerry and Clettack Skerry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentland_Skerries (78 words)

	The Pentland Firth
		The Pentland Firth lies between the northern Scottish mainland and the islands of Orkney and has a well-deserved reputation among the world's mariners as a channel to be navigated with great care.
		Charts of the Pentland Firth were inaccurate and of little practical use to navigators until Murdoch Mackenzie, an Orkney schoolmaster and mathematician, carried out the first modern survey of the islands in the 1740's.
		After Mackenzie's work and building of lighthouses - the lighthouse on the Skerries, erected in 1794, was the fifth modern lighthouse to be built in Scotland - encouraged more and more captains to venture through the Firth, a considerable shortening of the voyage to America from the east coast of Britain.
	www.clansinclairusa.org /articles/june2001/pentlandfirth.html (1309 words)

	CAITHNESS - LoveToKnow Article on CAITHNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Caithness is separated from the Orkneys by the Pentland Firth, a strait about 14 miles long and from 6 to 8 miles broad.
		Owing to the rush of the tide, navigation is difficult, and, in rough weather, dangerous.
		In the eastern entrance to the Firth lies the group of islands known as the Pentland Skerries.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAITHNESS.htm (1012 words)

	Tour Scotland my native homeland.
		Caithness in the extreme north east of Scotland, is separated from the Orkneys by the Pentland Firth, a strait about 14 miles long and from 6 to 8 miles broad.
		They are four in numberMuckle Skerry, Little Skerry, Clettack Skerry and Louther Skerryand the nearest is 4 miles from the mainland.
		The island of Stroma, belongs to Caithness and is situated in the parish of Canisbay.
	www.fife.50megs.com /caithness-anecdote.htm (263 words)

	GENUKI: South Ronaldsay, Orkney
		The parish, which is scattered, comprehends, besides the island of South Ronaldshay, the inhabited islands of Burray, Hunda, the Pentland Skerries and Swona, and the uninhabited island of Glimsholm, occupying the south-eastern corner of the Orcadian archipelago.
		The group lie at the eastern entrance of the Pentland Frith, and the Great Skerry, which is the only one inhabited, is about a mile in length by half a mile broad.
		It is situated on the N. side of the Pentland Frith, near the Wells of Swannay whirlpools, and extends 1 mile in length by half a mile in breadth.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/sct/OKI/SouthRonaldsay/Gaz1868.html (887 words)

	Pentland Firth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The headland of Dunnet Head protrudes into the Pentland Firth and its most northly point, Easter Head, is also that of mainland Britain.
		The Pentland Firth extends from Dunnet Head to Duncansby Head on the mainland and is well known for the strength of its tides, being among some of the fastest in the world.
		A speed of 16kts being reported close west of Pentland Skerries.
	pentland-firth.area51.ipupdater.com (695 words)

	4Reference \|\| Pentland Firth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the southern (Caithness) shore is the town of Thurso, the port of Thurso, 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.
		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.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Pentland_Firth.html (197 words)

	Articles - Orkney Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The remote Sule Skerry and Sule Stack lie around 60 km west of the archipelago, but form part of the council area.
		The Pentland Skerries lie further south, close to the Scottish mainland.
		The Pentland Firth is a seaway which separates Orkney from the mainland of Scotland.
	www.cateringa.com /articles/Orkney_Islands (3930 words)

	The Orcadian Features - New Torness light may have led Johanna Thorden to tragic end
		Markku, however, is firmly convinced that the Finnish sailors were correct and that the bow section had been blown to its final resting place by a combination of gale force winds and the raging tide.
		As the vessel approached the Pentland Firth on the evening of January 11, the crew were looking out for the light of the Dunnet Head lighthouse, which they knew should be kept to the starboard side of the ship.
		As the vessel came out into the less-sheltered waters to the south-west of the Pentland Skerries, the buffeting gales and a fierce northward tidal stream pushed the Johanna Thorden further to the north and she struck the skerries.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/articles/johanna2.htm (924 words)

	Monsters from the Deep - Documented Encounters
		Mr John Brown, the lighthouse keeper at the lighthouse on the Pentland Skerries, sighted another massive sea creature in August 1937.
		A few weeks prior to the Pentland Skerries sighting, workmen on the Fair Isle had reported seeing an exceptionally large "monster" approach them.
		Alarmed for the safety of a colleague, who was in the water, the shocked men were about to issue a warning signal when the creature "sheared off" to deeper water.
	www.orkneyjar.com /folklore/seabeasts2.htm (690 words)

	Historical perspective for Orkney Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the N of South Ronaldsay and separated from it by Water Sound is Burray with the smaller islands of Glimps Holm and Hunda; on the S are the Pentland Skerries, and SE is Swona.
		Except in the Pentland Firth, where the depth of the sea reaches 40 fathoms, the water in the straits between the islands and in their immediate neighbourhood is nowhere deeper than 20 fathoms.
		Inclusive of skerries the total number of islands and islets is 90, but of these only 40 are of any size, and only 28 are inhabited all the year round, while a few others are temporarily inhabited during the summer months only.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory1763.html (7144 words)

	Sharon Rose: James Barrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mayday from the James Barrie was in fact the third call for help from vessels in distress in the Pentland Firth since the tragic loss of the Longhope Lifeboat.
		On Saturday morning the abandoned trawler James Barrie was observed by the Pentland Skerries lightkeepers to have suddenly refloated herself and to be drifting away from the rocks.
		But today as a bid to refloat her was being planned the James Barrie slid from the reef at high tide and began to drift eastwards.
	www.scapacharters.co.uk /archive/wrecks2.html (1368 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson - Records of a Family of Engineers Page 18
		On a September night, the Regent lay in the Pentland Firth in a fog and a violent and windless swell.
		The purpose of these voyages was to effect a landing on open beaches or among shelving rocks, not for persons only, but for coals and food, and the fragile furniture of light-rooms.
		In 1831 I find my grandfather 'hovering for a week' about the Pentland Skerries for a chance to land; and it was almost always difficult.
	robert-louis-stevenson.classic-literature.co.uk /records-of-a-family-of-engineers/ebook-page-18.asp (626 words)

	Caithness CWS - Caithness Field Club - Annual Bulletins - 1983 - October - Wrecks of the Pentland Firth
		10.1866 During dense fog the schooner "GAZELLE" of Bangor, bound thence to Aberdeen with a cargo of staves, ran aground on the shoal between the Pentland Skerries Lighthouse and the Little Skerries.
		She was seen next day drifting, bottom up, westward through the Pentland Firth.
		1884 "VICKSBURG" of Leith struck on Muckle Skerry.
	www.caithness.org /caithnessfieldclub/bulletins/1983/wrecksofthepentlandfirth.htm (2869 words)

	Orkney News Archive for October 14-20, 2002
		Around 9pm a call was received from the 49 metre Gen Clipper, who had fouled her propeller around five miles south east of the Pentland Skerries.
		Meanwhile, sailings of the ferry temporarily covering the Pentland Firth route, Hebridean Isles, were disrupted on Friday with the 5.30am sailing from Scrabster cancelled and the 8.30am sailing from Stromness only leaving at 11 am.
		Pentland Ferries' new freight vessel, the Claymore, finally arrived in Orkney on Sunday.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /archive/2002/archive42.htm (1916 words)

	Supply Strategy - Maximum Storage (maximum output) Strategy
		This site is classed as a high collision risk area (experiencing over 5 vessels per day [1]) therefore permanent exclusion zones would be positioned around the farm to prevent vessels entering.
		The closest point-of-connection to the transmission network is at Thurso, therefore over 19km of sub-sea cabling would be required which would result in further disruption of the seabed and wildlife due to the digging of trenches and laying of cable.
		Any fishing involving nets, lines of potting would also be prohibited (including the sites around the Skerries and Inner Sound area of Pentland Firth) due to the risk of damage to fishing gear or the turbines.
	www.esru.strath.ac.uk /EandE/Web_sites/03-04/marine/strat_maxstorescen.htm (1375 words)

	HMS Opal Soc For Nautical Research
		The pair rendezvoused with the cruiser at 15.35 off the Pentland Skerries.
		More ships joined the search during the 13th, but with no sign of the missing destroyers, until late in the day when a washstand marked 'Sub Lt HMS Narborough' was picked up half a mile south of the Pentland Skerries.The weather remained poor, with blizzards, strong winds and deep frosts.
		Not until the morning of 14 January did the searching destroyer Peyton see the wreckage of the destroyers, and a man, on the shore at the Clett of Crura.
	www.kbrady.com /opalsnr.html (644 words)

	Ships Nostalgia - The History of RNLI TGB
		One of these dramatic rescues was of the Aberdeen trawler ‘Ben Barvas’ which got into difficulties and came ashore on the Pentland Skerries on Jan 3rd 1964.
		The Longhope Lifeboat ‘TGB’ was launched from Brims at 8.00pm in a force 9 south-easterly gale which had been blowing for several days turning the Pentland Firth extremely rough, visibility was also reduced owing to heavy rain and snow showers.
		The Light keepers on the Pentland Skerries saw the Lifeboats stern light about 9.35pm 1 mile east of the Pentland Skerries battling through mountainous seas.
	www.shipsnostalgia.com /showthread.php?t=2190 (1613 words)

	Earthdive News
		The new reefs to be included in these surveys are at Duncansby Head and the Pentland Skerries, in the Pentland Firth, and beneath Dunnotar Castle, Stonehaven.
		However, it is too early to say whether there are any populations of rare fish, animals or plants that would need protection.
		George Brown, of the MCS, who organised the Pentland Firth dive, said: "The Pentland Skerries and the mainland coastline around Duncansby Head are subject to some of the harshest sea and tidal conditions around the British Isles, but below the surface lies another world.
	www.earthdive.com /front_end/news/newsdetail.asp?id=1122 (536 words)

	MCS Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Divers have returned the first marine life records from little-dived reefs in the Pentland Firth (at Duncansby Head and the Pentland Skerries) and beneath spectacular Dunnotar Castle, Stonehaven.
		The Seasearch divers trained by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) were diving on expeditions organised by Inverness Sub-Aqua Club and MCS member George Brown (Pentland Firth) and Seasearch Northeast Scotland co-ordinator Marion Perutz with assistance from Stonehaven diver Allan Bellerby (Stonehaven).
		George Brown, organiser of the Seasearch trip to the Pentland Firth said “The Pentland Skerries and the mainland coastline around Duncansby Head are subject to some of the harshest sea and tidal conditions around the British Isles but below the surface lies another world.
	www.mcsuk.org /press/press_release.php?cust_id=21 (1112 words)

	Story of J.T. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was on her maiden voyage and came to Pentland Firth after a rough week at sea.
		But the vessel was again too much to the left and was moving sodeways towards Pentland Skerries and going ahead full speed at the same time.
		They hit at full speed Louther Skerries and the ship climbed over the reef and stopped suddenly from the full 12 knot speed in a second.
	personal.inet.fi /surf/jthorden/story.htm (276 words)

	Marine wildlife, scenic and adventure tours from John o Groats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the eastern end of the Pentland Firth lie the Pentland Skerries, which we visit occasionally.
		The Skerries are almost a blank on the birdwatching map because of the logistics of getting there - the weather and tide have to be just right 'on the day'.
		Because the weather can change very quickly in the Pentland Firth and could rapidly make the Skerries inaccessable by boat, we would prefer to wait at the landing place while groups are ashore rather than returning later in the day, so longer trips are normally on an hourly charter basis.
	www.northcoast.fsnet.co.uk /BirdsPage.htm (850 words)

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