Tayport, likewise known as Ferry-Port on Craig, is a town as well as burgh, as well as parish, in the region of Fife, Scotland, acting as a commuter town for Dundee. The slogan of the Burgh is Te oportet alte ferri ("It is incumbent on you to lug on your own high"), a word play here on Tayport at auld Tay Ferry. Tayport lies close to the north east tip of Fife. To the north it looks throughout the River Tay to Broughty Ferry and also Broughty Castle. To the east is the huge Tentsmuir Nature Reserve, an area of forested dunes measuring some 3 km from eastern to west as well as 6 km from north to southern and also bordered by wide sands that proceed completely round to the mouth of the River Eden. The civil parish of Ferry-Port on Craig has a population of 3,815 (in 2011).