Inchmickery
Sign in to savethumb|Inchmickery. thumb|Wartime jetty, fortifications and military buildings on the island. Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh.
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- United Kingdom
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- City of Edinburgh
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Firth of Forth
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- Inchmickery Island.jpg
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thumb|Inchmickery. thumb|Wartime jetty, fortifications and military buildings on the island. Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is about north of Edinburgh.
Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Innis nam Biocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicars, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby Inchcolm. It features occasionally in a riddle, "How many inches is the Forth?", playing on a pun on 'Inch' (Innis), the Gaelic word for island, and inch, the imperial measurement.