The United Kingdom (officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, the kingdom of Scotland has shared its monarch with England since 1603 and has been part of the United Kingdom since 1707. The coastline of the country is deeply cut by inlets, and there are more than 790 islands. The country has a long and distingushed maritime history; many of the most famous British captains and navigators have been Scots. Scotland was divided historically into 34 counties; the counties no longer have any administrative function although they continue to have cultural significance. Since 1996 the country has been divided into 32 council areas for the purposes of local government. This page is for lighthouses of the North Sea coast of Scotland in the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, and Angus and the important port cities of Aberdeen and Dundee. Lighthouses of the southeast, including the Firth of Forth and its approaches, are listed on Southeastern Scotland page. The region covered by this page includes the great northeastern bulge of the coastline reaching to Rattray Head and Kinnaird Head. The Scottish word loch is used both for lakes and for inlets of the sea; a firth is a larger bay or strait and a mull is a rounded headland. The Scottish Gaelic phrase for a lighthouse is taigh solais; eilean is an island, sgeir is a skerry or rock, and rubha or àird is a cape or promontory. The Northern Lighthouse Board ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from Volume A of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA numbers are from Publication 114.
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Moray Lighthouses
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Aberdeenshire Lighthouses
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![]() Torry Range Front Light, Aberdeen,March 2022 Google Maps street view |
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Angus and Dundee Lighthouses
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Adjoining pages: North: Highlands | South: Southeastern Scotland
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Posted September 9, 2004. Checked and revised August 21, 2024. Lighthouses: 40, lightships: 1. Site copyright 2024 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.