The Scottish Highlands

The Scottish Highlands

The Scottish’s HighlandsThe Highlands is a montainious region in the

North of Scottland.

The region have a little population : the density is more less than Sweden or Norway.

The land is a succession of moutains, some more high than thousand meters. The land is not fertile.

in the Highlands, the Gaelic is the more speaking language.

The Scottish’s Highlands

This Document present some places of interest.

Country seat : IvernessIverness is in northern Scottland, in the Highland. The city is the administrative

centre for the highland council area, and the capital of the Ighlands.The tourism is important to the city’s economy.The city lies where the River Ness enters the Moray Firth.

Country seat : Iverness

Country seat : IvernessIverness is in northern Scottland, in the Highland. The city is the administrative

centre for the highland council area, and the capital of the Ighlands.The tourism is important to the city’s economy.The city lies where the River Ness enters the Moray Firth.

Inverness was one of the chief strongholds of th Picts, with a Castel who have lived Bruceis called Craig Phadrig. It’s the bigger edifice of the city

Country seat : Iverness

Derry Cairngorm Cairngorm is a moutain in the Highland, in the Cairngorms range, north of

Braemar ( a village in the Arberdennshire ). The moutain is famous about his tourist attraction.

With a height of 1155 m. Derry Cairngorm is regarded as part of the centralgroup

of Cairngorm hills. Derry Cairngorm is characterised by large granite boulders on its higher slopes,

which make walking in the summit area difficult, often having to resort to hopping between boulders. All drainage from the mountain flows south via the Derry and Luibeg burns to join the River Dee and reach the sea at Aberdenn.

Derry Cairngorm

River CarronRiver Carron is a river in Wester Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. The river

rises in Ledgowan Forest. It gathers its head-streams through Carron Bog, then enters Loch Scaven and flows out from there.

Map of River Carron :

River Carron

Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish and Manx languages.

Scottish Gaelic

The modern Scottish Gaelic alphabet has 18 letters:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

Scottish Gaelic

Sources :Sources :• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn_Gorm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverness• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Highlands• http://www.highlands-and-islands.net/ • http://www.smoocave.org/

Images sources :• http://www.google.ch • http://search.live.com/

The Image in background is the famous Smoo Cave

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