Estuaries of Scotland

estuary of Scotland's River Forth

mouth or estuary of the River Clyde, Scotland, UK

firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland

Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. It is often used to refer to broad estuaries. In the Northern Isles, it more often refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to Scandinavian fjord and fjard (all from Proto-Germanic *ferþuz), with the original meaning of "sailable waterway". The word has a more constrained sense in English. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the Scottish east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Clyde is an

sea loch in Highland, Scotland, UK

river estuary and nature reserve in Angus, Scotland, UK