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Sinclairs Bay

Sinclairs Bay

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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]

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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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  1. [1]
    Robert Sinclair (12 June 2013). The Sinclairs of Scotland. AuthorHouse. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4817-9623-1. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  2. [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. [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. [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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