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skerry
thumb|right|Skerry outside Krøttøy in Harstad Municipality, [[Norway]] thumb|Skerries which are part of Åland, [[Finland]] thumb|right|Passing a skerry off Garibaldi, Oregon, United States
North Channel
strait in the United Kingdom between northeast Northern Ireland and the Scottish Kintyre peninsula
Sea of the Hebrides
portion of the North Atlantic Ocean, located off the coast of western Scotland
Firth of Clyde
mouth or estuary of the River Clyde, Scotland, UK
The Minch
strait between the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Scotland
HMNB Clyde
Royal Navy base in Scotland
Gulf of Corryvreckan
strait in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Cowal
Cowal () is a rugged peninsula in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland. It is connected to the mainland to the north, and is bounded by Loch Fyne to the west, by Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde to the east, and by the Kyles of Bute to the south.
Chapelcross nuclear power station
nuclear power station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
sea in the United Kingdom
Darwin Mounds
large field of undersea sand mounds off the north west coast of Scotland
Sea Mither
Orcadian mythical being that lives in the sea during summer, when she confines the demonic nuckelavee to the ocean depths; each spring she battles with her arch-enemy Teran to gain control of the seas and the weather
Caledonian MacBrayne
Scottish ferry company
FARICE-1
FARICE-1 is a submarine communications cable connecting Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland. The cable has been in use since January 2004 and is 100% owned by Iceland. The cable had an initial design capacity of 720 Gbit/s and is a two fibre pair design. The length of the cable is 1205 km for the direct route between Iceland and Scotland. The cable structure and repeaters were made by Pirelli and the terminal equipment was supplied by TYCO. In the year 2013 the terminal equipment was upgraded by Ciena (100 Gbit/s technology) bringing the total capacity of the submarine cable
Rockall Trough
bathymetric feature northwest of Scotland and Ireland between European continental shelf and Rockall Bank
RNAD Coulport
Royal Naval Armaments Depot in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
Haar
cold sea fog, especially on the east coast of Britain