This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Geologic Formation Attractions In Scottish Highlands

x
The Highlands is a historic region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means the place of the Gaels and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles a...
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

Geologic Formation Attractions In Scottish Highlands

  • 1. Cape Wrath Durness
    Cape Wrath is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. The cape is separated from the rest of the mainland by the Kyle of Durness and consists of 107 square miles of moorland wilderness known as the Parph. The first road was built in 1828 by the lighthouse commission across the Parph/Durness. This road connects a passenger ferry that crosses the Kyle of Durness with the buildings on the peninsula. Much of the cape is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is used as a military training area, including as live firing range. Areas of it are also designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Landscape Area.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 3. Loch Morar Morar
    Loch Morar is a freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is the fifth-largest loch by surface area in Scotland, at 26.7 km2 , and the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles with a maximum depth of 310 m . The loch was created by glacial action around 10,000 years ago, and has a surface elevation of 9 metres above sea level. It separates the traditional district of North Morar , from Arisaig and Moidart
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 5. Kyle Of Tongue Tongue
    The Kyle of Tongue Bridge is part of the Kyle of Tongue Causeway, which crosses Kyle of Tongue sea loch on the north coast of Scotland. The bridge and causeway were built by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners in 1971 to carry the A838, the road from Thurso to Durness, across the loch. Until 1956 there had been a passenger ferry but the route around the head of the loch involved a narrow road some ten miles long. The causeway is 3.8 kilometres long and it crosses a natural island, Tongue Island . The 183-metre-long bridge is at the western end of the causeway and it has eighteen spans supported by twin piers. The bridge was fully refurbished in 2011.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 6. The Old Man of Stoer Stoer
    The Estado Novo , or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933, which was considered fascist. It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the democratic but unstable First Republic. Together, the Ditadura Nacional and Estado Novo are recognised as the Second Portuguese Republic. The Estado Novo, greatly inspired by conservative and authoritarian ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, when he fell ill and was replaced by Marcelo Caetano. Opposed to communism, socialism, anarchism, liberalism, national socialism and anti-colonialism, the regime was corporatist, conservative, and nationalist in nature, defendi...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Scottish Highlands Videos

Shares

x

Places in Scottish Highlands

x

Regions in Scottish Highlands

x

Near By Places

Menu