Great Glen
The Great Glen, also known as Glen Albyn or Glen More, is a glen in Scotland running for 62 miles from Inverness on the edge of the Moray Firth, in an approximately straight line to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Graham Lewis, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 617 feet
- Description: 100km length valley bisecting Highland, Scotland, UK, between Inverness and Fort William
- Also known as: “Caledonian Trough”, “Glen Albyn”, “Glen More”, “Glen More nan Albin”, “Glenmore”, “Great Glen of Scotland”, “the Great Glen”, and “The Great Glen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Immaculate Conception Parish Church, Stratherrick and Loch Mhòr.
Immaculate Conception Parish Church, Stratherrick
Church
Photo: Sarah McGuire, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Immaculate Conception Church, Stratherrick is in the Dalcrag area of Whitebridge, Inverness-shire, in the Highlands of Scotland and is a served by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aberdeen.
Loch Mhòr
Reservoir
Photo: Sarah McGuire, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Mhòr is a reservoir in the traditional county of Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands. Its name literally translates from Scottish Gaelic as "Big Loch". Loch Mhòr is situated 2 miles east of Great Glen.
Foyers Power Station
Power station
Photo: Paul Hookway, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foyers Power Station is situated 2 miles north of Great Glen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Falls of Foyers and Foyers.
Falls of Foyers
Locality
The Falls of Foyers are two waterfalls on the River Foyers, which feeds Loch Ness, in Highland, Scotland. They are located on the lower portion of the River Foyers, and consist of the upper falls, with a drop of 46 feet and the lower falls, which drop 98 feet.
Foyers
Village
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foyers is a village in the Highland council area of Scotland, lying on the east shore of Loch Ness. The village is situated on the B852, part of the Military Road built by General George Wade, 10 miles northeast of Fort Augustus.
Whitebridge
Village
Photo: LordHarris, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whitebridge is a small village on the southwest side of Loch Ness in northern Scotland. Whitebridge is situated 2 miles south of Great Glen.
Great Glen
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Great Glen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Great Glen”
- Belarusian: “Глен-Мор”
- Breton: “Gleann Mòr”
- Breton: “Great Glen”
- Bulgarian: “Глен Мор”
- Catalan: “Glen More”
- Cebuano: “Glen More”
- Chinese: “大峽谷”
- Czech: “Great Glen”
- Danish: “Great Glen forkastningen”
- Dutch: “Great Glen”
- Esperanto: “Granda Valo de Skotlando”
- Estonian: “Great Glen”
- Finnish: “Glen Albyn”
- Finnish: “Glen More”
- Finnish: “Great Glen”
- French: “Glen Mor”
- French: “Great Glen”
- German: “Glen More”
- German: “Great Glen”
- Hebrew: “הגלן הגדול”
- Irish: “An Gleann Mór, Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
- Irish: “An Gleann Mór”
- Italian: “Glen Albyn”
- Italian: “Glen Mor”
- Italian: “Glen More”
- Italian: “Great Glen”
- Japanese: “グレート・グレン峡谷”
- Japanese: “グレート・グレン渓谷”
- Japanese: “グレートグレン”
- Kazakh: “Глен-Мор”
- Korean: “대협곡”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Glenas”
- Macedonian: “Голем Глен”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Glen Fault”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Glen forkastningen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Glen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Glenforkastningen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Glen”
- Norwegian: “Great Glen”
- Persian: “گریت گلن”
- Polish: “Glen More”
- Polish: “Great Glen”
- Polish: “Great Glenn”
- Portuguese: “Great Glen”
- Russian: “Глен-Мор”
- Russian: “Грейт-Глен”
- Scots: “Great Glen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Gleann Mór”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Gleann Mòr”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Albainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Mòr”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glen Mor”
- Slovenian: “Great Glen”
- Spanish: “Depresion de Glen More”
- Spanish: “Depresión de Glen More”
- Spanish: “Gleann Mor”
- Spanish: “Gleann Mòr”
- Spanish: “Glen Albyn”
- Spanish: “Glen More”
- Spanish: “Gran Glen”
- Spanish: “Great Glen”
- Swedish: “Glen More”
- Swedish: “Great Glen”
- Ukrainian: “Глен-Мор”
- Upper Sorbian: “Great Glen”
- Western Panjabi: “گریٹ گلن”
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Highlights include Carn Dearg and Creag Bhreac.
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