Inchmickery

Inchmickery is a small island in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It is about two miles north of Edinburgh.

Its name comes from the Scottish Gaelic, Innis nam Biocaire, meaning Isle of the Vicars, implying that there may have been an old ecclesiastical or Culdee settlement here, as in nearby Inchcolm. It features occasionally in a riddle, "How many inches is the Forth?", playing on a pun on 'Inch', the Gaelic word for island, and inch, the imperial measurement.

Inchmickery is tiny, only 100 metres by 200 metres. During both World War I and World War II the island was used as a gun emplacement. The concrete buildings make the island look like a battleship. Although the island is now uninhabited much of this concrete superstructure remains largely intact.