Cromarty Firth

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Cromarty Firth
Cromarty Firth Location in Scotland
Location	Scotland, United Kingdom
Coordinates	57°41′N 4°07′W / 57.683°N 4.117°W / 57.683; -4.117
Ramsar Wetland
Designated	22 July 1999
Reference no.	1001[1]

The Cromarty Firth (

Geography

The entrance to the Cromarty Firth is guarded by two precipitous headlands; the one on the north 151 metres (495 ft) high and the one on the south 141 metres (463 ft) high — called "The Sutors" from a fancied resemblance to a couple of shoemakers (in Scots, souters) bent over their lasts. From the Sutors the Firth extends inland in a westerly and then south-westerly direction for a distance of 19 miles (30.6 km). Excepting between Nigg Bay and Cromarty Bay where it is about 5 miles (8 km) wide, and Alness Bay where it is 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, it has an average width of 1 mile (1.6 km).^[2] The southern shore of the Firth is formed by a peninsula known as the Black Isle. Good views of the Cromarty Firth are to be had from the Sutors or Cnoc Fyrish.

At its head the Firth receives its principal river, the

The

At Nigg there is an important North Sea oil and renewable energy centre owned by Global Energy Group since 2011. The yard with a dry dock for repairing and fabricating oil platforms, was opened in 1972 as a joint venture between Brown & Root and construction company George Wimpey. The yard is presently known as Nigg Energy Park.

Elsewhere along the firth are facilities for cruise ships, oil processing, and bulk cargo handling.

Cromarty Firth Port Authority is the body responsible for regulating and managing the commercial and industrial resources of the firth.^[4]

Further reading

• interview with Tommy Lafferty, Convenor of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee at the
  ISSN 0307-2029
• Rosie, George (1974), Cromarty: The Scramble for Oil, Cannongate,
  ISBN 9780903937054
• Rosie, George (1978), The Ludwig Initiative: A cautionary tale of North Sea Oil, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh,
  ISBN 9780906391006

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• Ash, Marinell (1991), This Noble Harbour.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cromarty Firth". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 483.

External links

• Media related to Cromarty Firth at Wikimedia Commons
• Cromarty Firth Port Authority