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===Firths on the east coast of Scotland (from north to south)=== [[Image:Cromarty Firth entrance.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Entrance to the [[Cromarty Firth]], with oil rigs behind]] [[Image:Dundee from Tay.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Dundee]] from the [[Fife]] shore of the Firth of Tay]] These are connected to, or form part of, the [[North Sea]]. *[[Dornoch Firth]] (northernmost of the eastern firths) **Places: [[Dornoch]], [[Dornoch Firth Bridge]] (road bridge, {{convert|1/2|mi|m|abbr=on|disp=or}} long), [[Bonar Bridge]], [[Kyle of Sutherland]], [[Tain]], [[Portmahomack]] on Tarbat Ness (fishing village facing west to northwest on the east coast). **Rivers: [[River Oykel|Oykel]], [[River Cassley|Cassley]], [[River Shin|Shin]] and [[River Carron, Sutherland|Carron]] **Headland: Tarbat Ness. *[[Cromarty Firth]] (loch-type firth with relatively narrow opening to the sea). The Firth runs out into the [[Moray Firth]]. **Places: [[Cromarty]], [[Dingwall]], [[Invergordon]]. **Rivers: Conon, Orrin, Rusdale, Glass, Alness. *[[Moray Firth]] and [[Beauly Firth]] (a loch-type firth) connected with the Firth of [[Inverness]]. The Firth of Inverness is rarely identified on modern maps, but forms a connection via the River Ness, [[Loch Ness]] and the other [[loch]]s of the [[Great Glen]] and stretches of the [[Caledonian Canal]] with the [[Firth of Lorne]] on the west coast of Scotland. **Places on the ''Moray Firth'': ''Inverness'', [[Nairn]], [[Fortrose]], [[Fort George, Highland|Fort George]]. **Headlands: [[Whiteness Head]], Chanonry Point, Alturlie Point. **Places on the ''Beauly Firth'': [[Beauly]]. *[[Firth of Tay]] (estuary of the [[River Tay]]). **Places: [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], [[Dundee, Scotland|Dundee]], [[Monifieth]], [[Tayport]], [[Newport on Tay]], [[Newburgh, Fife]]. **Rivers: [[River Tay|Tay]], [[River Earn|Earn]]. **Headland: Buddon Ness. **Islands: [[Mugdrum Island]] *[[Firth of Forth]] (estuary of the [[River Forth]]) **Places: [[Edinburgh]], [[Dunfermline]], [[Kirkcaldy]], [[Grangemouth]], [[Rosyth]], [[North Queensferry]], [[South Queensferry]], [[Musselburgh]], [[Crail]], [[Cellardyke]], [[Anstruther]], [[Pittenweem]], [[St Monans]], [[Elie and Earlsferry|Elie]], [[Earlsferry]], [[Longniddry]], [[Aberlady]], [[Gullane]], [[Dirleton]], [[North Berwick]]. It is spanned by the [[Queensferry Crossing]], {{convert|2,700|m|ft|abbr=on}} long; the [[Forth Road Bridge]], {{convert|2,512|m|ft|abbr=on}} long; and the [[Forth Bridge]], {{convert|2,498|m|ft|abbr=on}} long. **Rivers: [[River Forth|Forth]], [[River Avon, Falkirk|River Avon]], [[Water of Leith]], [[River Almond, Lothian|River Almond]], [[River Esk, Lothian|River Esk]], [[River Leven, Fife|River Leven]] **[[Islands of the Forth|Islands]]: [[Bass Rock]], [[Craigleith]], [[Eyebroughy]], [[Fidra]], [[Inchcolm]], [[Inchgarvie]], [[Inchkeith]], [[Inchmickery]], [[Isle of May]], [[Lamb (island)|Lamb]]
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