Wick, Highland
The port city of Brunswick is located on the north east coast of Scotland about 414 kilometers north of Edinburgh and about 1062 km north of London. The approximately 7,010 inhabitants ( 2004 estimate ) scoring Wick is the chief town of the county of Caithness. The name Wick is apparently derived from the Norse word for bay.
The city stretches along a harbor at the mouth of the small river of the same name. A railway line, the Far North Line, linking Wick with the South and with Thurso. North of the town there is a small regional airport, which connects the north of Scotland with the Scottish capital Edinburgh (via the also Scottish Aberdeen) with the English East Midlands Airport, Humberside, Norwich and Teesside, also there is a route to Sumburgh in the Shetland islands.
The port of Wick gained its greatest splendor with the boom of the herring fishery in the late 18th century; Today he serves as an oil and ferry port. The Ebenezer Place in Wick applies with a length of two meters and six centimeters according to the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest street in the world.
In Wick, Old Pulteney is located with the most northerly whiskey distillery on the Scottish mainland.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henry Adam, British playwright
- John Gow, pirate
- Evan Oliphant, cyclist
- Alexander Henry Rhind, archaeologist, discoverer of the Rhind Papyrus
Castle of Old Wick
Climate chart of Wick