Canisp
Sign in to saveCanisp (Scottish Gaelic: Canasp) is a mountain in the far north west of Scotland. It is situated in the parish of Assynt, in the county of Sutherland, north of the town of Ullapool. Canisp reaches a height of and qualifies as a Corbett and Marilyn hill. The mountain's name translates from the Old Norse kambsnípa or point of the comb/ridge.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Canisp
- Mountain.other_name
- Canasp
- Mountain.photo
- Canisp_from_Conival.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Canisp seen from Conival, nine kilometres to the east.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 847
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 691
- Mountain.prominence_ref
- Ranked 65th in British Isles
- Mountain.parent_peak
- Ben More Assynt
- Mountain.listing
- Corbett, Marilyn
- Mountain.translation
- White Mountain
- Mountain.language
- Old Norse
- Mountain.location
- Assynt, Scotland
- Mountain.range
- Northwest Highlands
- Mountain.grid_ref_UK
- NC203187
- Mountain.topo
- OS Landranger 15, OS Explorer 442
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Canisp (Scottish Gaelic: Canasp) is a mountain in the far north west of Scotland. It is situated in the parish of Assynt, in the county of Sutherland, north of the town of Ullapool. Canisp reaches a height of and qualifies as a Corbett and Marilyn hill. The mountain's name translates from the Old Norse kambsnípa or point of the comb/ridge.
== Geography and geology == Canisp is an isolated mountain that stands in the Glencanisp Forest, a large rock and water wilderness. It has a topographic prominence of . Canisp has little vegetation, even on its lower slopes large areas of Gneiss (one of the oldest rocks in the world) are visible on the surface.