Summer The Great Glen And Loch Ness On Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish fiddle music, of The Great Glen and Loch Ness on visit to the Scottish Highlands. The Great Glen, Scottish Gaelic: An Gleann Mòr, also known as Glen Albyn, from the Gaelic Gleann Albainn meaning the Glen of Scotland or Glen More, from the Gaelic Gleann Mòr, is a glen in Scotland running for 62 miles from Inverness on the edge of Moray Firth, in an approximately straight line to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe. It follows a geological fault known as the Great Glen Fault, and bisects the Scottish Highlands into the Grampian Mountains to the southeast and the Northwest Highlands to the northwest. The glen's strategic importance in controlling the Highland Scottish clans, particularly around the time of the Jacobite risings of the 18th century, is recognised by the presence of the towns of Fort William in the south, Fort Augustus in the middle of the glen, and Fort George, just to the north of Inverness. Much of the glen is taken up with a series of lochs including Loch Ness.

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