River Dee, Aiberdeenshire
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The River Dee (Scots Gaelic: Uisge Dhè) is a river in Aiberdeenshire, Scotland. It rises in the Cairngorms an flows throu Strathdee tae reach the Nor' Sea at Aiberdeen. The area it rins throu is kent as Deeside, or Ryal Deeside in the region atween Braemar an Banchry acause Queen Victoria visitit the area in 1848. She an her husband, Prince Albert, tuir doon an auld castle an biggit Balmoral Castle.[2]
River Dee | |
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The River Dee at Potarch, atween Abyne and Banchry. | |
The nor east o Scotland, shawin the location o the Dee. | |
Native name | Uisge Dhè |
Basin | |
Main source | Wells o Dee, Braeriach, Cairngorms 1,220[1] m (4,000 ft) |
River mooth | Aiberdeen 57°08′32″N 2°04′02″W |
Basin size | 2,100 km2 (810 sq mi) |
Pheesical chairacteristics | |
Lenth | 140 km (87 mi) |
Dischairge |
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Features |
Deeside is a common tourist spot, due tae a mix o bonnie scenery an historic an ryal associations.[2] Deeside, alangside Lochnagar, is considered a National Scenic Area an is pairt o the Cairngorm National Pairk.[3] The Dee is weel-liked wi anglers, an is een o the maist weel-kent saumon fishin rivers in the warld.[4]
The New Statistical Account of Scotland attributit the name Dee as haein been uised as airly as the seicont hunneryear AD in the wark o the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy, as Δηοῦα (=Deva), meanin 'Goddess', pintin tae a divine status fur the river in the beliefs o the auncient fowk o the area. There is mony ither rivers in Great Britain wi the same name, an aa o these ar believed tae hae alike wird oreegins.[5]