Sinclairs Bay

Sinclair's Bay
Sinclair's Bay
	Noss Head, lighthouse from across Sinclair's Bay
	Sinclair's Bay
Location	Caithness, Scotland
Coordinates	58°30′20.5848″N3°05′38.7960″W / 58.505718000°N 3.094110000°W Coordinates: 58°30′20.5848″N3°05′38.7960″W / 58.505718000°N 3.094110000°W
River sources	River of Wester
Ocean/sea sources	North Sea
Basin countries	Scotland
Max. length	9.45 km (5.87 mi)
Max. width	3.51 km (2.18 mi)
Average depth	16.2 metres (53 ft)

Last updated April 23, 2023

Sinclairs Bay is a large remote, breast shaped, or left leaf of a tear drop shaped, coastal embayment, on the east coast of Scotland, in east Caithness, in the district of the east Highlands.^[1] Its coastline falls entirely within the Scottish council area of Highland.^[2]

Geography

Starting in the north, at Ness Head, the bay is bounded by Freswick Bay, and overlooked by Skirza Head, the bay proper sweeps south in a long elliptical curve, before sweeping east to pass the remains Castle Sinclair ^[3] and terminating at Noss Head Lighthouse.^[4]

Sinclairs Bay has two primary geological features. Starting at the coastal village of Keiss, running northeast, a stony beach and coastal crags, become cliffs that are increasingly sheer the further north. South of Keiss, the cliffs even out in a large white sandy beach, called Keiss Beach, forming large Dunes of Reiss Beach further south. At Ackergill Tower, the beach again becomes stony and eventually forms into a series of cliffs and crags, further east.

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References

↑ Robert Sinclair (12 June 2013). The Sinclairs of Scotland. AuthorHouse. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4817-9623-1 . Retrieved 29 June 2017.
↑ James Tait Calder (1861). Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness, from the Tenth Century. Thomas Murray and Son. pp. 18–.
↑ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Castle Sinclair". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
↑ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Noss Head". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.

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[Sinclair2013-1] Robert Sinclair (12 June 2013). The Sinclairs of Scotland. AuthorHouse. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4817-9623-1 . Retrieved 29 June 2017.

[Calder1861-2] James Tait Calder (1861). Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness, from the Tenth Century. Thomas Murray and Son. pp. 18–.

[3] Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Castle Sinclair". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.

[4] Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Noss Head". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 22 April 2023.

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