Inchmickery

Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is around a mile north of Edinburgh.

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Firth of Forth - Scotland - Edinburgh

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Its name comes from the Gaelic, Innis nam Bhiocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicar, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby Inchcolm. It features occasionally in a riddle, "How many inches is the Forth?", playing on a pun on 'Inch' (Innis), the Gaelic word for island, and inch, the imperial measurement.

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Gaelic - Culdee - Inchcolm - Riddle - Forth - Island - Inch - Imperial measurement

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Inchmickery is tiny, only 100 meters by 200 meters. During World War II the island was used as a gun emplacement. The concrete buildings were formed to make the island look (from a distance) like a battleship. Although the island is now uninhabited much of this concrete superstructure remains largely intact. These buildings were used for filming scenes of the film Complicity.

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World War II - Complicity

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The island is now an RSPB reserve, and is home to breeding pairs of Common Eider, Sandwich Terns and the very rare Roseate Tern .

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RSPB - Common Eider - Sandwich Tern - Roseate Tern

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