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Ben Lomond, the Glossary

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Highest points of historic Scottish counties
Loch Lomond

Alpine tundra

Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated harsh climate.

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Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 although, according to Thomas R.

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Arrochar Alps

The Arrochar Alps are a group of mountains located around the heads of Loch Long, Loch Fyne, and Loch Goil. Ben Lomond and Arrochar Alps are mountains and hills of the Southern Highlands.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beinn Ìme

Butter Mountain is the highest mountain in the Arrochar Alps of Argyll, in the Southern Highlands of Scotland. Ben Lomond and Beinn Ìme are Marilyns of Scotland, mountains and hills of the Southern Highlands and Munros.

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Ben Lomond (disambiguation)

Ben Lomond is a mountain in Scotland east of Loch Lomond.

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Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis) is the highest mountain in Scotland, the United Kingdom, and the British Isles. Ben Lomond and Ben Nevis are highest points of historic Scottish counties, Marilyns of Scotland and Munros.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

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British Trust for Ornithology

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Common Brittonic

Common Brittonic (Brythoneg; Brythonek; Predeneg), also known as British, Common Brythonic, or Proto-Brittonic, is an extinct Celtic language spoken in Britain and Brittany.

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Diorite

Diorite is an intrusive igneous rock formed by the slow cooling underground of magma (molten rock) that has a moderate content of silica and a relatively low content of alkali metals.

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Donald Dewar

Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) was a Scottish statesman and politician who served as the inaugural first minister of Scotland and leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.

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English overseas possessions

The English overseas possessions comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of England before 1707.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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First Minister of Scotland

The first minister of Scotland (prìomh mhinistear na h-Alba), formally known as the First Minister and Keeper of the Scottish Seal, is the head of the Scottish Government and also serves as the keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland whilst in office.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Goat Fell

Goat Fell (Scottish Gaelic: Gaoitbheinn) is the highest point on the Isle of Arran. Ben Lomond and Goat Fell are highest points of historic Scottish counties, Marilyns of Scotland and national Trust for Scotland properties.

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Golden eagle

The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Grampian Mountains

The Grampian Mountains (Am Monadh) is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Grazing

In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.

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Isle of Arran

The Isle of Arran (Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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List of Graham mountains

This is an overview of the Grahams and a list of them by height.

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List of Marilyns in the British Isles

This is a list of Marilyn hills and mountains in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and surrounding islands and sea stacks.

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List of P600 mountains in the British Isles

This is a list of P600 mountains in Britain and Ireland by height.

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List of Scottish counties by highest point

This is a list of the 33 counties of Scotland by their highest point. Ben Lomond and list of Scottish counties by highest point are highest points of historic Scottish counties.

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Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn) is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands.

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Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park (Pàirc Nàiseanta Loch Laomainn is nan Tròisichean) is a national park in Scotland centred on Loch Lomond and the hills and glens of the Trossachs, along with several other ranges of hills. Ben Lomond and Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park are loch Lomond.

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Lomond Hills

The Lomond Hills (meaning either beacon hills or bare hills), also known outside the locality as the Paps of Fife, are a range of hills in central Scotland.

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Merlin (bird)

The merlin (Falco columbarius) is a small species of falcon from the Northern Hemisphere, with numerous subspecies throughout North America and Eurasia.

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Monument

A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.

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Munro

A Munro (Rothach) is defined as a mountain in Scotland with a height over, and which is on the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) official list of Munros; there is no explicit topographical prominence requirement. Ben Lomond and Munro are Munros.

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National Heritage Memorial Fund

The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) was set up in 1980 to save the most outstanding parts of the British national heritage, in memory of those who have given their lives for the UK.

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National Trust for Scotland

The National Trust for Scotland (Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish conservation organisation.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Peregrine falcon

The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.

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Plynlimon

Plynlimon, or Pumlumon in Welsh (also historically anglicised as Plinlimon and Plinlimmon), is the highest point of the Cambrian Mountains in Wales (taking a restricted definition of the Cambrian Mountains, excluding Snowdonia, the Berwyns and the Brecon Beacons), and the highest point in Mid Wales.

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References

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Highest points of historic Scottish counties

Loch Lomond

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