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This large port
- once
fashionable as a
spa town - has a
history of
fishing
stretching back
to the 16th
century. At one
time it was a
major whaling
centre, an
industry
remembered at
the Arbuthnot
Museum. The most
easterly town in
Scotland, its
bay is a now a
base for the
major North Sea
oil industry.
The town was
founded by
George Keith,
5th Earl
Marischal, and
was the place
chosen as
landfall by
James Stuart
during the
ill-fated
Jacobite Rising.
He left from
here just a few
weeks later when
his troops went
their own way.
The Peterhead
Maritime
Heritage has
various displays
on local culture
and industry.
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