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means The mountainous or elevated regions of a country, especially the rugged upland areas of northern Scotland.
from A plain compound of "high" and "land," both rooted in Old English (heah and land) and stretching back to common Germanic ancestry. The word means exactly what it says — land that sits high — but capitalized as "the Highlands," it came to name Scotland's northern uplands specifically, set against the gentler "Lowlands" to the south.
- clearance scars
- sheep replaced people in brutal 18th-century evictions
- deepest loch
- Loch Ness holds more water than all English lakes
- munro bagging
- 282 peaks over 3,000 feet to collect
- midge season
- tiny biting flies outnumber tourists by billions
- oldest rock
- Lewisian gneiss dates back three billion years
scottish highlands — mountainous region in northern scotland covering about 9,900 square miles with peaks over 4,000 feet
ethiopian highlands — volcanic plateau in ethiopia with elevations of 7,000-13,000 feet, home to addis ababa and 50% of africa's mountains
peruvian highlands — andean region in peru with altitudes above 9,000 feet where machu picchu and the inca heartland are located