Nordic Sola Cargo Ship Queensferry Crossing On Visit to Firth Of Forth Scotland

Tour Scotland early Summer 4K travel video of the Nordic Sola cargo ship sailing under the Queensferry Crossing on visit to the Firth of Forth. The vessel Nordic Sola is a Chemical and Oil Products Tanker built in 2008 and currently sailing under the flag of Norway. The Queensferry Crossing, formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing, is a road bridge built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge which carries the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth between Lothian, at South Queensferry, into Fife and onwards to Perthshire, at North Queensferry. The bridge is 683 feet high above high tide, equivalent to approximately 48 London buses stacked on top of each other and 25% higher than existing Forth Road Bridge. It is estimated the construction involved approximately 10 million man hours. The Queensferry Crossing is 33 miles from Perth, Perthshire and 14 miles from Edinburgh. The Firth of Forth, Scottish Gaelic: Linne Foirthe, is the estuary or firth of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian near Edinburgh on the south coast. It was known as Bodotria in Roman times. In the Norse sagas it was known as the Myrkvifiörd. An early Welsh name is Merin Iodeo, or the " Sea of Iudeu."

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