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[[Image:Inchgarvie.JPG|right|thumb|Inchgarvie can be seen just below the [[Forth Bridge (railway)|Forth Bridge]]]]

Many small islands and peninsulas were fortified in order to provide protection for inlets and other strategic targets. At the [[Firth of Forth]] in Central/Eastern Scotland, [[Inchgarvie|Inchgarvie Island]] was heavily fortified with several gun emplacements which can still be seen. This provided invaluble defence not only from seaborne attacks against the bridge, but also for nearby [[Rosyth Dockyard]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst1302.html | title=Overview of Inchgarvie Island from Edinburgh University Geography Department's Gazetteer for Scotland.| work= | accessdate=2007-04-13}}</ref>, approximately a mile upstream from the bridge. Further out towards the sea, [[Inchmickery|Inchmickery Island]], about 1.6 miles North of Edinburgh, was similarly fortified. The remnants of gun emplacements on the coast to the North and South of Inchmickery Island also remain to be seen.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=55.989455~-3.382531&style=h&lvl=19&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&encType=1 | title=Satellite link to gun emplacements on the South Bank of the Firth of Forth.| work= | accessdate=2007-04-13}}</ref>

===Lines and islands===