Pentland Firth
Americannoun
noun
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Built in 1904, Bee spent its first three decades transporting sheep, cattle and horses from Stroma over the treacherous two miles of the Pentland Firth.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025
New artwork inspired by large rocks that roll around the seabed of the Pentland Firth have been installed at John O'Groats.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2015
I like the leather-clad bikers on the Isle of Man, and the Scottish island of Stroma in the Pentland Firth, which was finally abandoned in 1962.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2013
Research in the Orkneys and the Pentland Firth will help unlock 6 billion pounds of investment, Salmond said in a May 18 speech on his renewable-energy policy.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011
June 3.—The wind continuing favourable after leaving Yarmouth, about nine this morning we passed the rugged and bold projecting rock, termed Johnny Groat's house, and soon afterwards Duncansby Head, and then entered the Pentland Firth.
From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by Franklin, John
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