The Highlands is a historical region of Scotland, comprising the Northernmost mountain ranges on the island of Great Britain, divided by the Great Glen between the Grampian Mountains to the southeast
The Scottish Highlands are renowned for their natural beauty and are a popular subject in art (here depicted by Henry Bates Joel).
Highland Hospitality, painted by John Frederick Lewis, 1832
Stalking in the Highlands by James Giles, 1853
Oban distillery from the pier
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland, the United Kingdom, and the British Isles. Ben Nevis stands at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Highland region of Lochaber, close to the
Scottish Highlands
…Lowlands. The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. During the 18th and early 19th centuries the population of the Highlands rose to around 300,000, but from c. 1841 and for the next 160 years, the…
Ben Nevis from Banavie. The summit is beyond and to the left of the apparent highest point.
The steep south face of Ben Nevis from Sgurr a' Mhàim
A temperature inversion around Càrn Dearg Buttress and Castle Corrie
An undated photograph of the Ben Nevis observatory (1883–1904) and 'hotel' (hostel). The hotel began as a spare-room-for-hire within the observatory and remained open until 1916.