<Tr> <Th> Frozen </Th> <Td> no </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Islands </Th> <Td> Isle of Arran, Isle of Bute, Isle of Cumbrae </Td> </Tr> <P> The Firth of Clyde is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Scotland, named for the River Clyde which empties into it . It encloses the largest and deepest coastal waters in the British Isles, sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland . The Kilbrannan Sound is a large arm of the Firth of Clyde, separating the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran . Within the Firth of Clyde is another major island--the Isle of Bute . Given its strategic location, at the entrance to the middle / upper Clyde, Bute played a vitally important military (naval) role during World War II . </P> <P> The Firth's climate enjoys the benefit of the Gulf Stream from America . </P>

An inlet on the atlantic in southwest scotland