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Scrabster, is a small but important harbour on Scotland's north coast facing the Pentland Firth, a treacherous stretch of water notorious for its fast-flowing tides (6-IO knots).
Pentland means 'Pictland", the Picts (the 'painted people') being a race in Scotland whose only remains are the many carved stones and some elements of their language in place names - for example Pitmedden in Aberdeenshire. The harbour is the terminal for the ferry to Stromness in Orkneyand, in the summer months a car ferry to the Faroe Islands and Iceland. |
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It is one of Britain's larger sea-angling centres, with claims to records for both the largest catches of fish and world-record sized giant halibut (the current record stands at 232 lb).
It was from Scrabster that Lord Kitchener sailed in the ill-fated HMS Hampshire in June I 9 I 6. The estate of Scrabster once belonged to the Crown, and the reigning sovereign is called locally the Laird of Scrabster. To the cast of the village is Holborn Head, where that rather rare flower the Scottish primrose. |
