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Highest mountains in Great Britain. ("Simms" classification) Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, is the highest mountain in The British Isles. Highest point. Elevation. over 600 m (1,969 ft) Prominence. over 30 m (98 ft) Geography.
2,315 metres (7,595 ft) British Antarctic Territory. 14 (The tallest peak on a territory with a permanent population) Queen Mary's Peak. 2,062 metres (6,765 ft) Tristan Da Cunha. 23 (The tallest peak in Great Britain and Scotland) Ben Nevis. 1,345 metres (4,413 ft)
List of mountains of the British Isles by height (1–500) Highest mountains in Great Britain. ("Simms" classification) Ben Nevis, in the Scottish Highlands, is the highest mountain in The British Isles. Highest point. Elevation. over 600 m (1,969 ft) Prominence. over 30 m (98 ft)
The North of England includes the country's highest mountains, in the Lake District of Cumbria. This was one of the first national parks to be established in the United Kingdom, in 1951. The highest peak is Scafell Pike, 978 m (3,209 ft) above sea level, and at least three other summits exceed 3,000 feet or 914.4 metres making them Furth Munros.
This is a list of the 100 highest mountains in Scotland by elevation. List of 100 highest mountains in Scotland ...
Ben Nevis (Beinn Nibheis), the highest mountain in Scotland and the United Kingdom [1] at 4,413 feet (1,345 m), is in the Highland region at the western end of the Grampian Mountains. A Scottish mountain over 3,000 feet (910 m) is referred to as a Munro, of which there are 282. As of 2019, hundreds of thousands of people visit mountains in ...
Snowdonia, or Eryri (pronounced [ɛrəri] ⓘ), is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales. It contains all 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), which is 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) tall. These peaks are all part of the Snowdon, Glyderau, and Carneddau ranges in the north of ...
Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland that are furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland, and which would otherwise qualify as Scottish Munros or Munro Tops. [14] [65] They are sometimes referred to as the Irish, the English or the Welsh Munros. There are 34 furths; 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland and six in England. The highest is Snowdon. Of ...