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Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the United Kingdom, at 1344.527 m / 4413 ft - it gained about a metre during a 2016 official survey. It's near the town of in the , at the southwest end of the Great Glen.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,413 feet
  • Description: highest mountain of Great Britain
  • Also known as: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Wheelchair access: no
Photo: Loek037, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Càrn Mòr Dearg and Càrn Dearg Meadhonach.

Peak
Photo: David Crocker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the ninth-highest mountain in and the , with a height of 1,220 metres. It stands a short distance northeast of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, to which it is linked by the arête.

Peak
Photo: Cary O’Donnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Achriabhach.

Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , Lochaber, , Scotland. is adjacent to the Ben Nevis Site of Special Scientific Interest as designated by Scottish Natural Heritage.

Ben Nevis

Latitude
56.7968° or 56° 47′ 49″ north
Longitude
-5.006° or 5° 0′ 22″ west
Elevation
4,413 feet (1,345 metres)
Open location code
9C8PQXWV+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8870212
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­survey_point
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
2641744
Wiki­data ID
Q104674
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Ben Nevis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ben Nevis”
  • Albanian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Arabic: “جبل بن نيفيس”
  • Armenian: “Բեն Նեվիս”
  • Armenian: “Բեն Նևիս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ben Nevis”
  • Basque: “Ben Nevis”
  • Belarusian: “Бен-Невіс”
  • Belarusian: “Бэн-Нэвіс”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Бен-Невіс”
  • Bosnian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Breton: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Breton: “Ben Nevis”
  • Bulgarian: “Бен Невис”
  • Catalan: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Catalan: “Ben Nevis”
  • Cebuano: “Ben Nevis”
  • Chinese: “朋尼維山”
  • Chinese: “本内维斯山”
  • Chinese: “本尼維斯山”
  • Chinese: “本尼维斯山”
  • Croatian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Czech: “Ben Nevis”
  • Danish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Dutch: “Ben Nevis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بن نيفيس”
  • Esperanto: “Ben Nevis”
  • Estonian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Finnish: “Ben Nevis”
  • French: “Ben Nevis”
  • French: “Càrn Dearg”
  • Galician: “Ben Nevis”
  • Georgian: “ბენ-ნევისი”
  • German: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • German: “Ben Nevis”
  • Greek: “Μπεν Νέβις”
  • Hebrew: “בן נוויס”
  • Hebrew: “מסלולי ההליכה לפסגת ההר בן נוויס”
  • Hungarian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Icelandic: “Ben Nevis”
  • Inari Sami: “Ben Nevis”
  • Indonesian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Interlingua: “Ben Nevis”
  • Interlingue: “Ben Nevis”
  • Irish: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Italian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Japanese: “ベン・ネヴィス”
  • Japanese: “ベン・ネヴィス山”
  • Japanese: “ベン・ネビス”
  • Japanese: “ベン・ネビス山”
  • Japanese: “ベンネヴィス”
  • Japanese: “ベンネビス”
  • Japanese: “ベンネビス山”
  • Kazakh: “Бен-Невис”
  • Korean: “벤네비스 산”
  • Korean: “벤네비스산”
  • Kurdish: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Kurdish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Kurdish: “بەن نەڤس”
  • Ladin: “Ben Nevis”
  • Latvian: “Neviss”
  • Ligurian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ben Nevio kalnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Lombard: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Lombard: “Ben Nevis”
  • Low German: “Ben Nevis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Macedonian: “Бен Невис”
  • Manx: “Beinn Nivish”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل بين نيڤيس”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Northern Sami: “Ben Nevis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ben Nevis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ben Nevis”
  • Norwegian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ben Nevis”
  • Persian: “بن نویس”
  • Persian: “بننویس”
  • Polish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Portuguese: “Ben Nevis”
  • Romanian: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Romanian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Russian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Russian: “Бен Невис”
  • Russian: “Бен-Невис”
  • Scots: “Ben Nevis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Beinn Nibheis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ben Nevis”
  • Serbian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Serbian: “Бен Невис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ben Nevis”
  • Slovak: “Ben Nevis”
  • Slovenian: “ben nevis”
  • Slovenian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Spanish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Swahili: “Ben Nevis”
  • Swedish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Turkish: “Ben Nevis”
  • Ukrainian: “Бен-Невіс”
  • Ume Sami: “Ben Nevis”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Venetian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Vietnamese: “Ben Nevis”
  • Welsh: “Ben Nevis”
  • Western Frisian: “Ben Nevis”
  • Western Panjabi: “بن نیوس”
  • Wu Chinese: “本尼维斯山”
  • Yiddish: “בען נעוויס”

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