Moray Firth School Moray Firth School Moray Firth School was an independent school located at Gollanfield, between Inverness and Nairn, Scotland. It was open 2002–2010 and during that period was the only independent school in the Highland council area. Plans for the new school were published in January 1998. The building was previously occupied by the Petty East School that was closed by Highland Council due to falling rolls. Moray Firth School was opened, in September 2002, by Anni Cole-Hamilton, who was also its principal. When it opened it offered classes from primary one to secondary one, with the capacity to take 80
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