Ben Armine

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Ben Armine
Creag a' Choire Ghlais
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Ben Armine summit
Highest point
Elevation 705 m (2,313 ft) [1]
Prominence 243 m (797 ft)
Listing Graham, Marilyn
Geography
Location Sutherland, Scotland
Parent range Northwest Highlands
OS grid NC695273
Topo map OS Landranger 16

Ben Armine (705 m) is a remote hill in Sutherland in the far north of Scotland. It lies in inland, north of the village of Lairg.

Sutherland Historic county in Scotland

Sutherland is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south and the Atlantic to the north and west. Like its southern neighbour Ross-shire, Sutherland has some of the most dramatic scenery in the whole of Europe, especially on its western fringe where the mountains meet the sea. These include high sea cliffs, and very old mountains composed of Precambrian and Cambrian rocks.

Lairg human settlement in the United Kingdom

Lairg is a village and parish in Sutherland, Scotland. It has a population of 891 and is at the south-eastern end of Loch Shin.

The best known summit of a range of hills lying southeast of Ben Klibreck, its southern neighbour Creag Mhor is slightly higher. [2]

Ben Klibreck 962m high mountain in Scotland

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References

  1. "Ben Armine". hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. "walkhighlands Ben Armine". walkhighlands.co.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2019.