Cairn Gorm
Cairn Gorm is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. It is part of the Cairngorms range and wider Grampian Mountains. With a summit elevation of 1,245 m above sea level, Cairn Gorm is classed as a Munro and is the sixth-highest mountain in the British Isles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,085 feet
- Description: Scottish mountain
- Also known as: “An Carn Gorm”, “An Càrn Gorm”, “Cairngorm”, and “Cairngorum”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Beinn Mheadhoin and Loch A’an.
Beinn Mheadhoin
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beinn Mheadhoin or Beinn Meadhain is a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland. It is a Munro with a height of 1,182 metres and by some counts it is the twelfth-highest mountain of Great Britain.
Loch A’an
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch A'an is a remote freshwater loch set deep within the central Cairngorms plateau, in the Cairngorms National Park, located in the eastern Highlands of Scotland.
Loch Etchachan
Photo: SilentSpike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Loch Etchachan is a remote freshwater loch set deep within the central Cairngorms plateau, in the Cairngorms National Park, located in the eastern Highlands of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coire an t-Sneachda and Lairig an Laoigh.
Coire an t-Sneachda
Locality
Photo: Nk.sheridan, Public domain.
Coire an t-Sneachda is a glacial cirque or corrie landform in the Cairngorm or Am Monadh Ruadh mountain range in the Grampian Mountains of the Scottish Highlands.
Lairig an Laoigh
Locality
The Lairig an Laoigh is a mountain pass through the Highlands of Scotland. In speech and sometimes in writing the name is reduced to "Lairig Laoigh". It is of glacial origin, dissecting the Cairngorm plateau, and it runs roughly north–south from Speyside to Deeside at one time being used as a drove road.
Cairn Gorm
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.11677° or 57° 7′ 0″ northLongitude
-3.64449° or 3° 38′ 40″ westElevation
4,085 feet (1,245 metres)Open location code
9C9R4984+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 35925143OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cairn Gorm” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cairn Gorm”
- Cebuano: “Cairngorm”
- Chinese: “凱恩戈姆”
- Dutch: “Cairn Gorm”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كايرن جورم”
- French: “Cairn Gorm”
- German: “Cairn Gorm”
- Irish: “An Càrn Gorm, Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd”
- Irish: “An Cárn Gorm”
- Ladin: “Cairn Gorm”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairn Gorm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cairn Gorm”
- Norwegian: “Cairn Gorm”
- Polish: “Cairn Gorm”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Carn Gorm”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Càrn Gorm”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cairn Gorm”
- Swedish: “Cairn Gorm”
- Swedish: “Cairngorm”
- Welsh: “An Càrn Gorm”
- Welsh: “Cairn Gorm”
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