Quinag
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Quinag () is an 808 m high mountain range in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, with an undulating series of peaks along its Y-shaped crest. The name Quinag is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Cuinneag, a milk pail, reflecting its distinctive shape.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Quinag
- Mountain.photo
- Quinag.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Quinag in the distance from the western end of Loch Assynt
- Mountain.elevation
- Sàil Gharbh: Sàil Ghorm: Spidean Coinich:
- Mountain.prominence
- c. 553 m, 158 m, 192 m
- Mountain.listing
- Corbett, Marilyn (both x3)
- Mountain.translation
- Little milk pail
- Mountain.language
- Gaelic
- Mountain.location
- Assynt, Scotland
- Mountain.grid_ref_UK
- NC209292
- Mountain.topo
- OS Landranger 15
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Quinag () is an 808 m high mountain range in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands, with an undulating series of peaks along its Y-shaped crest. The name Quinag is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Cuinneag, a milk pail, reflecting its distinctive shape.
Geologically, Quinag is made of Torridonian sandstone, resting on a substrate of Lewisian gneiss. The highest peaks are capped by a thin skin of Cambrian quartzites with the gentle eastern slope of Spidean Coinich being a dip slope formed along the quartzite beds. The massif is an excellent place to appreciate the relationship between these three major rock units of the NW Highland.
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