Glencoe
Glencoe is a hauntingly scenic valley in the western Scottish Highlands, a branch of The Great Glen which carves coast to coast. It's also the name of the village at its foot, where the glen meets the sea at Loch Leven.
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 499 feet
- Description: glen in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Glen Coe”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Pap of Glencoe and Massacre of Glencoe Monument.
Pap of Glencoe
Peak
Henderson Stone
Memorial
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glencoe and Aonach Eagach.
Glencoe
- Categories: glen and landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.6667° or 56° 40′ north
Longitude
-5.0833° or 5° 5′ west
Elevation
499 feet (152 metres)
Open location code
9C8PMW88+MM
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venetian—“Glencoe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Glen Coe”
- Basque: “Glen Coe”
- Bengali: “গ্লেন কো”
- Breton: “Gleann Comhann”
- Catalan: “Glen Coe”
- Cebuano: “Glen Coe”
- Chinese: “格伦谷”
- Czech: “Glen Coe”
- Dutch: “Glen Coe”
- Estonian: “Glen Coe”
- Finnish: “Glen Coe”
- French: “Glen Coe”
- German: “Glen Coe”
- Hausa: “Glen Coe”
- Hungarian: “Glencoe-völgy”
- Indonesian: “Glen Coe”
- Irish: “Gleann Comhann”
- Italian: “Glen Coe”
- Italian: “Glencoe”
- Japanese: “グレン・コー”
- Korean: “글렌코”
- Latvian: “Glenko”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glen Coe”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Glen Coe”
- Persian: “گلن کو”
- Polish: “Glen Coe”
- Portuguese: “Glen Coe”
- Russian: “Гленко”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Comhann”
- Spanish: “Glen Coe”
- Swedish: “Glen Coe”
- Venetian: “Glencoe”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Inverigan and Coire nan Cuilc.
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