The Moray Firth is among the top 20 most beautiful coastal areas in the world, coming just three points behind Hawaii's Na Pali Coast, according to National Geographic magazine.
A worldwide "destinations rating" survey, voted for by experts and readers, placed the coast between Inverness and Peterhead among 99 other iconic coasts, and rated it better than the Skeleton Coast in Namibia and New Zealand's Great Barrier Island.
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