Merrick
The Merrick is a mountain in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The summit elevation is 843 metres, making it the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands and southern Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DavidAdamson, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,766 feet
- Description: 843m high mountain in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Mearaig” and “The Merrick”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirriereoch Hill and Benyellary.
Kirriereoch Hill
Peak
Photo: Mary and Angus Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirriereoch Hill is a hill in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies on the border of the old counties of Ayrshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, or the modern regions of Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire.
Benyellary
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Merrick is a mountain in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The summit elevation is 843 metres, making it the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands and southern Scotland.
Loch Enoch
Photo: Tony Page, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Enoch is a multi-basin freshwater loch in Galloway, to the east of Merrick and south of Mullwharchar. The loch is situated in a granite basin and has several small islands and some beaches on its shore.
Merrick
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.1393° or 55° 8′ 22″ northLongitude
-4.46848° or 4° 28′ 7″ westElevation
2,766 feet (843 metres)Open location code
9C7Q4GQJ+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 526101223OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Merrick” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Merrick (Galloway)”
- Basque: “Merrick”
- Cebuano: “Merrick (bukid sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Merrick”
- Dutch: “Merrick”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ميريك”
- French: “Merrick”
- German: “Merrick”
- Hungarian: “Merrick”
- Irish: “A‘ Mhearag”
- Japanese: “メリック山”
- Ladin: “Merrick”
- Latvian: “Meriks”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merrick i Galloway”
- Polish: “Mearaig”
- Polish: “Merrick”
- Russian: “Меррик (гора)”
- Russian: “Меррик”
- Scots: “Merrick”
- Scots: “The Merrick”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhearag”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Mhearag”
- Spanish: “Merrick”
- Swedish: “Merrick (berg i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Merrick”
- Welsh: “Mearaig”
- Welsh: “Merrick”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Merrick”. Photo: DavidAdamson, CC BY 3.0.