Scrabster
| Scrabster | |
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| Land |  Storbritannien |
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  Scrabster Scrabsters placering 58°36′35″N 3°33′09″V / 58.6097°N 3.5525°V | |
Scrabster (skotsk gælisk: Sgrabastair/Sgrabstal)[1] er en lille bebyggelse ud til Thurso Bay i Caithness på nordkysten af Skotland. Den ligger omkring 2,4 km fra Thurso, 36 kmfra Wick, 180 km fra Inverness 437 km Edinburgh. Scrabster Harbour er en vigtig havn for den skotske fiskeindustri.[2]
Under anden verdenskrig blev ammunition sejlet til Scapa Flow i Orkneyøerne fra havnen i Scrabster ombrod på skibet Mermaid (registreret i King's Lynn og bygget i 1908), af Antony Bridges.[3]
Transport
NorthLink færgen MV Humnavoe sejles fra Scrabster til Stromness på Orkneyøernes Mainland. Smyril Line drev en ugentlig afgang til Færøerne i sommermånederne men blev lukket i 2008.[4]
Den næreste jernebane er Far North Line, der forbinder Thurso med Inverness.
Referener
- ^ "Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba - Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland - Database". Gaelicplacenames.org. Arkiveret fra originalen 24. september 2015. Hentet 14. december 2014.
- ^ [1] Arkiveret 23. oktober 2007 hos Wayback Machine
- ^ Scapa Ferry, Antony Bridges, ISBN 0 09 916960 6, 1957.
- ^ "Summer ferry sailings cancelled". BBC News. 11. november 2008. Hentet 10. april 2012.
Eksterne henvisninger
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