Llyn Llydaw

Llyn Llydaw is a natural lake in on the flanks of , Wales' highest mountain. This long thin lake has formed in a cwm about one-third of the way up the mountain.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Snowdon and Crib Goch.

Peak
Photo: Gdr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, or Yr Wyddfa, is a mountain in in . It has an elevation of 1,085 metres above sea level, which makes it both the highest mountain in and the highest in the south of the .

Peak
is a knife-edged arête in the National Park in , Wales. The name means "red ridge" in Welsh. The highest point on the arête is 923 metres above sea level.

Peak
is a mountain, connected to in the , . Its summit lies 898 metres above sea level. The eastern flanks are steep cliffs rising above and Llyn Llydaw.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nant Peris and Cwm Idwal.

Village
is a village.

Locality
is a cirque in the Glyderau range of mountains in northern , the national park in the mountainous region of . Its main interest is to hill walkers and rock climbers, but it is also of interest to geologists and naturalists, given its combination of altitude, aspect and terrain.

Photo: nov03, CC BY 2.0.
is a small village in , which is a starting point for walks up , , and the Nantlle Ridge. It lies on the A4085 between and , at its junction with the B4418 to and . is one of the stops on the Welsh Highland Railway between Caernarfon and .

Llyn Llydaw

Latitude
53.06887° or 53° 4′ 8″ north
Longitude
-4.04899° or 4° 2′ 56″ west
Elevation
1,417 feet (432 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q3X92+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 40619481
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
7534670
Wiki­data ID
Q3086201
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Llyn Llydaw” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Llyn Llydaw
  • Arabic: Llyn Llydaw
  • Breton: Llyn Llydaw
  • Cebuano: Llyn Llydaw
  • Chinese: Llyn Llydaw
  • Dutch: Llyn Llydaw
  • Egyptian Arabic: بحيره لين ليداو
  • French: Llyn Llydaw
  • Galician: Llyn Llydaw
  • Hebrew: Llyn Llydaw
  • Irish: Llyn Llydaw
  • Italian: Llyn Llydaw
  • Japanese: スラダウ湖
  • Lithuanian: Llyn Llydaw
  • Lithuanian: Lydau ežeras
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Llyn Llydaw
  • Russian: Ллидау
  • Spanish: Llyn Llydaw
  • Swedish: Llyn Llydaw
  • Twi: Llyn Llydaw
  • Venetian: lago Llydaw
  • Welsh: Llyn Llydaw

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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 “Llyn Llydaw”. Photo: Fallschirmjäger, CC BY-SA 3.0.