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Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.It was built to control the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.
Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”.
Scotland occupies the cooler northern section of Great Britain, so temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the British Isles, with the coldest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra, Highland, on 30 December 1995.
View south from near the scene of the 1971 disaster (this photograph was taken in winter 1992) The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old students from Edinburgh's Ainslie Park High School and their two leaders embarked on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.
Hiking Scotland’s premier long-distance trail in the colder months allows you to experience the stark natural splendour of the Highlands without the summer crowds, writes Alastair Gill
Rosemarkie fronts on a wide, picturesque bay, with views of Fort George and the Moray coastline across the Moray Firth. It has one of the finest beaches on the Moray Firth Coast Line. [citation needed] At the southern end of the beach is Chanonry Point, reputed to be the best location on the United Kingdom mainland from which to see dolphins.
Beinn Eighe (Scottish Gaelic for 'file mountain') [3] is a mountain massif in the Torridon area of Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.Lying south of Loch Maree, it forms a long ridge with many spurs and summits, two of which are classified as Munros: Ruadh-stac Mòr at 1,010 m (3,314 ft) and Spidean Coire nan Clach at 993 m (3,258 ft).
Ardersier Parish Church, built as the United Presbyterian Church in 1880. Ardersier / ˈ ɑː r d ə s i r / (Scottish Gaelic: Àird nan Saor) is a small former fishing village in the Scottish Highlands on the Moray Firth near Fort George, between Inverness and Nairn. [2]