Cromarty Firth

The Cromarty Firth has an estuary on the north coast of the Moray Firth. It ranges from the Moray Firth coming about 30 km initially in a westerly then south-west to the land mass into it. Is the town of Dingwall, Cromarty on his driveway at his head. Administratively, the Cromarty Firth to the Scottish Highland unitary authority is attributable. About 20 km to the south runs the estuary Beauly Firth. Both arms of the sea together form the coasts of the Black Isle. Near Dingwall crossing the Cromarty Bridge the Firth. It contributes to the A9 trunk road, the most important of the Scottish Highlands. The Far North Line runs along the north coast.

During the two world wars, there was the military significant port of Invergordon on the north coast of the Moray Firth. It was closed in 1956. At the beginning of the 1970s, plants have been established for the construction and maintenance of Öhlbohrplattformen in the Moray Firth.