Old Photograph Duncansby Head Lighthouse Scotland

Old photograph of Duncansby Head Lighthouse near John o' Groats, Caithness, Scotland. This Scottish lighthouse overlooks the Pentland Skerries. The Skerries are caused as the waters of the wide Atlantic flow into the North Sea and ebb in the opposite direction. This sets into motion a welter of eddies, races, overfalls, and in the neighbourhood of this lighthouse they run at a speed of ten knots. In the days of sail, the Pentland Firth earned the title of "Hell's mouth."



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