Firth locally the change is held to be at the Tail of the Bank where the river crosses a sandbar off Greenock at the junction to the Gare Loch, or even further west at Gourock point. However, some firths are exceptions. The Cromarty Firth on the east coast of Scotland, for example, resembles a large loch with only a relatively small outlet to the sea and the Solway Firth and the Moray Firth are more like extremely large bays. The Pentland Firth is a strait rather than a bay or an inlet. These are connected to, or form part of, the
Whaling in Scotland the Firth of Tay. The fleet encountered Carl Anton Larsen of the "Jason", near Joinville Island, on 24 December 1892. Four ships took part: The success of the 1892-93 expedition led directly to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–04, and to Dundee being chosen for building the "Discovery" for the Discovery Expedition of 1901–04. Due to the work of Scottish whalers, sealers and other sailors, several place names in or near Antarctica have Scottish origins: Whaling in Scotland The first evidence for whaling in Scotland is from Bronze Age settlements where whalebones were used for constructing and decorating dwelling