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Location:
Europe,
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
Category:
City Webcam
Description:
View looking over the harbour area,
located near the top of the city's
historic Town House facing the
Castlegate
Location Information:
Aberdeen is Scotland's third most
populous city and one of Scotland's
32 local government council areas.
It has an official population
estimate of 210,400.
Nicknames include the Granite City,
the Grey City and the Silver City
with the Golden Sands. During the
mid-18th to mid-20th centuries,
Aberdeen's buildings incorporated
locally quarried grey granite, whose
mica deposits sparkle like silver.
The city has a long, sandy
coastline. Since the discovery of
North Sea oil in the 1970s, other
nicknames have been the Oil Capital
of Europe or the Energy Capital of
Europe.
The area around Aberdeen has been
settled for at least 8000 years,
when prehistoric villages lay around
the mouths of the rivers Dee and
Don.
In 1319, Aberdeen received Royal
Burgh status from Robert the Bruce,
transforming the city economically.
The city's two universities, the
University of Aberdeen, founded in
1495, and the Robert Gordon
University, which was awarded
university status in 1992, make
Aberdeen the educational centre of
the north-east. The traditional
industries of fishing, paper-making,
shipbuilding, and textiles have been
overtaken by the oil industry and
Aberdeen's seaport. Aberdeen
Heliport is one of the busiest
commercial heliports in the world
and the seaport is the largest in
the north-east of Scotland
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