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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by hrnnnnnn on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:38AM (#21248086)
And on the east coast we have the Firth of Forth
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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smcl on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:42AM (#21248129)
And of course up in the north, the Moray Firth :-)

I wonder if there's anything referred to as "Firth" in a non-Scotland place, perhaps up in Canada or in NZ?

update: yes (in England, Germany, NZ and Antarctica)! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firth#English_firths

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by arethuza on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:01AM (#21248352)
And a bit further north there is the Pentland Firth which, of course, is nowhere near the Pentlands!
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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smackay on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:20AM (#21248545)
From wikipedia:

The name is presumed to be a corruption of the Old Norse "Petlandsfjörð",[1] meaning "the fjord of Pictland", and is completely unrelated to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentland_Firth

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by growlist on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:40AM (#21249477)
And for the ladies, there's Colin Firth.

downvotes?! no sense of humour.

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Re:Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites by smcl on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:14PM (#21252984)
That's a totally legit Firth, IMO
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