Girdle Ness, a promontory in Nigg parish, Kincardineshire, flanking the S side of the mouth of the river Dee, and terminating 2 miles ESE of Aberdeen. It forms the eastern extremity of a spur of the Grampian mountains; and is crowned with a lighthouse, which, built in 1833 at a cost of £11, 940, shows two fixed lights, 115 and 185 feet above mean tide, and visible at the distance of 16 and 19 nautical miles.Ord. Sur., sh. 77, 1873.
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