The Moray Firth is a roughly triangular inlet of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of the north of Scotland.
View from Findhorn: The hills across inner Moray Firth end in Tarbat Ness. The mountains in the background rise behind Dornoch Firth.
The strait between Moray Firth and Beauly Firth
Firth is a word in the English and Scots languages used to denote various coastal waters in the United Kingdom, predominantly within Scotland. In the Northern Isles, it more often refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to fjord, which 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 exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth" ; instead, these are often called sea lochs. Before about 1850, the spelling "Frith" was more common.
The estuary of the River Nith, opening into Solway Firth south of Dumfries.
Entrance to the Cromarty Firth, with oil rigs behind
Dundee from the Fife shore of the Firth of Tay
Cliffs in Saviskaill Bay on Rousay, looking northward to Westray across Westray Firth