Fife Ness

{{Short description|Headland and most eastern point of Fife, Scotland}}

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| image = Fife Ness Lighthouse - geograph.org.uk - 937536.jpg

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| caption = Fife Ness Light, August 2008

| location = Fife Ness
Crail
Fife
Scotland
United Kingdom

| coordinates = {{coord|56.278834|-2.585789}}

| yearbuilt = 1975

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| construction = concrete building

| shape = lantern attached to 1-storey building

| marking = white building

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| focalheight = {{convert|12|m|ft}}

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| range = White: {{convert|15|nmi}}
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| characteristic = Iso WR 10s 12m 15-12MFile:FifeNess dome.gif
[Fl.5.0s - ec. 5.0s]
[Sector(s): W. 143°-197°, R -217°, W 023°]

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| mmsi = 002320798

| managingagent = Northern Lighthouse Board{{Cite rowlett|sctse|accessdate=2016-05-16}}[http://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Fife-Ness/ Fife Ness] Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 16 May 2016

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Fife Ness ({{langx|gd|Rubha Fiobha}}) is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs".Sibbald, Robert, The History of Fife, p4 It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map. Ness is a Scots word meaning "headland".{{Cite web|url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/ness|title=Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: ness}}

Fife Ness was home to a Coastguard station until 2012{{cite news |title=Over and out: Forth coastguard signs off |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/sep/27/forth-coastguard-fife-ness-closes |work=The Guardian |date=27 September 2012 |access-date=30 November 2018|last1=Topham |first1=Gwyn }} and an important Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouse built in 1975 on project by P. H. Hyslop, warning shipping of the headland and the North Carr shoals. The lighthouse was built to replace the last in a series of lightvessels that guarded the treacherous rocks, as it had proved impossible to build a permanent lighthouse on the rocks themselves.

Fife Ness is also surrounded by the links terrain of Crail Golfing Society.