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- Instance of
- mountain range
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Highland
- Elevation
- 1344
- Highest point
- Ben Nevis
- Material used
- metamorphic rock
- Image
- Грампианские горы.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Grampians
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of the Grampian Mountains within Scotland
The Grampian Mountains (Scottish Gaelic: Am Monadh) is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland. The other two ranges are the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands. The Grampian range extends northeast to southwest between the Highland Boundary Fault and the Great Glen. The range includes many of the highest mountains in the British Isles, including Ben Nevis (whose peak contains the highest point in the British Isles at 1,345 m or 4,413 ft above sea level) and Ben Macdui (whose peak contains second-highest at 1,309 m or 4,295 ft).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grampian Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.