Inchkeith
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- Geography, geology and climate
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- Inchkeith as quarantine
- James IV's linguistic experiment
- Rough Wooing, Reformation, and the 17th century
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- 19th century and World War I
- The Second World War
- Operation Fortitude North
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Inchkeith (from the ) is an island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, administratively part of the Fife council area.
Inchkeith has had a colourful history as a result of its proximity to Edinburgh, its strategic location for use as a home for Inchkeith Lighthouse, and for military purposes defending the Firth of Forth from attack from shipping and more recently protecting the upstream Forth Bridge and Rosyth Dockyard. Inchkeith has, by some accounts, been inhabited (intermittently) for almost 1,800 years.
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