Editing Aberdeen (section)

===Water===
Aberdeen Harbour is important as the largest in the north of Scotland and serves the ferry route to [[Orkney]] and [[Shetland]]. Established in 1136, the harbour has been referred to as the "oldest business in Britain".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-publishing.com/Pages/AberdeenOG/fact.html |title=It's a fact: 50 things you may not have known about Aberdeen |publisher=Aberdeen Official Guide |access-date=15 February 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061207054314/http://www.british-publishing.com/Pages/AberdeenOG/fact.html |archive-date=7 December 2006 }}</ref>

The Dee Estuary, Aberdeen's harbour, started out as a fishing port, moving on to steam trawlers and serving the oil industry; it is now a major port of departure for the [[Baltic region|Baltic]] and [[Scandinavia]].<ref name=EB>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-first=Dale H. |editor-last=Hoiberg |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=Aberdeen |edition=15th |year=2010 |volume=I: A-ak Bayes |isbn=978-1-59339-837-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/27 27–28] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency/page/27 |access-date=7 September 2019 }}</ref>