Stonehaven Harbour gave the town its name: 'Stane Hyve' referred to a slab of sandstone once sitting across the water, blasted away in the 1820s on advice from Robert Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and grandfather to novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. The present harbour dates from 1825, commissioned by merchant William Duthie, whose clippers sailed as far as Australia and are remembered by a small well nearby.

One of those ships, the Rifleman, supplied Stonehaven's most dramatic tale: in 1873 its captain was strangled in his cabin, and two Stonehaven men settled the mutiny that followed, one wrestling a pistol from the other. The harbour is calmer now, its yachts and clam boats a world from that voyage.

VoiceMap's tour of Stonehaven links the harbour's engineering to Stevenson's grandson's novels and the Duthie fortune to the mutiny that nearly undid it, before wandering toward Burns's family farms and the young BBC.