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″N 3°05′38.7960″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)

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.

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.