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Moray Firth
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Moray Firth

Inlet of the North Sea, northeastern Scotland. It extends inland for 39 mi (63 km) and is 16 mi (29 km) wide at its widest point. Its inner reaches are divided by a peninsula, the Black Isle, into two smaller inlets, Cromarty Firth and the Firth of Inverness; the city of Inverness lies there.


Moray Firth
an inlet of the North Sea on the NE coast of Scotland. Length: about 56 km (35 miles)

Moray Firth 

an inlet of the North Sea cutting the northeastern coast of Great Britain. Width at the entrance, 100 km; depths, 25-60 m. Tides are semidiurnal and up to 5.5 m. The Moray Firth is linked with the Firth of Lome by the Caledonian Canal. The port of Inverness is on the firth.



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These stunning images of the dolphins were taken as they hunted at Chanonry Point, near Fortrose, on the Moray Firth - home of the most northern colony of bottlenose dolphins in the world.
Seven bottlenose dolphins identified in the Moray Firth were tracked to islands on the west coast of Scotland and three of those to Cork and Galway.
On last week's visit we had a National Trust holiday rental in Cromarty with a view to seeing the much-lauded bottlenose dolphins of the Moray Firth.
 
 
 
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