Beinn a‘ Chaorainn
Beinn a' Chaorainn is a Scottish mountain in the heart of the Cairngorms range. It is quite a remote hill, being located roughly 19 kilometres south east of Aviemore and 14 kilometres north west of Braemar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,553 feet
- Description: 1083m mountain in Aberdeenshire and Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn”
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 Lairig an Laoigh and Coire an t-Sneachda.
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.
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.
Beinn a‘ Chaorainn
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.09333° or 57° 5′ 36″ northLongitude
-3.57759° or 3° 34′ 39″ westElevation
3,553 feet (1,083 metres)Open location code
9C9R3CVC+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 304582672OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Beinn a‘ Chaorainn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”
- Cebuano: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn”
- Dutch: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بين ا تشاوراين”
- German: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn (Cairngorms)”
- German: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn”
- Ladin: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”
- Ladin: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn i Cairngorms”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn i Cairngorms”
- Polish: “Jarzębinowa Góra”
- Russian: “Бенн-а-Хаорейн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”
- Swedish: “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”
- Swedish: “Beinn a’ Chaorainn”
- Welsh: “Beinn a’Chaorainn”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dubh Lochán and Beinn a‘ Chaorainn Bheag.
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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 “Beinn a‘ Chaorainn”. Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.