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Pentland Firth, strait, between Caithness and the Orkney Islands, connecting the North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean; is 20 miles long and from 6½ to 8 miles broad; its navigation is rendered difficult and dangerous by the rapidity of the tidal current - from 6 to 12 miles an hour - and by dangerous eddies or whirlpools.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "strait" (ADL Feature Type: "channels") |
| Administrative units: | Caithness County Orkney County |
| Place: | Pentland Firth |
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