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Highland midge. The highland midge (scientific name: Culicoides impunctatus; Scots: Midgie; Scottish Gaelic: Meanbh-chuileag) is a species of biting midge found across the Palearctic (throughout Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, other regions of Northern Europe, Russia and Northern China) in upland and lowland areas (fens, bogs and marshes).
Forestry and Land Scotland. Glen Affric National Nature Reserve. Glen Affric (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Afraig) [4] is a glen south-west of the village of Cannich in the Highland region of Scotland, some 15 miles (25 kilometres) west of Loch Ness. The River Affric runs along its length, passing through Loch Affric and Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin.
A midge is any small fly, including species in several families of non- mosquito nematoceran Diptera. Midges are found (seasonally or otherwise) on practically every land area outside permanently arid deserts and the frigid zones. Some midges, such as many Phlebotominae (sand fly) and Simuliidae (black fly), are vectors of various diseases.
The UK’s largest national park, the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands, has everything from mountains to climb to forest footpaths to tread and lochs shores to stroll. Mountain ranges amid the ...
Glen Coe (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Comhann[3] pronounced [klan̪ˠˈkʰo.ən̪ˠ]) is a glen of volcanic origins, [4] in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies in the north of the county of Argyll, close to the border with the historic province of Lochaber, within the modern council area of Highland. Glen Coe is regarded as the home of Scottish ...
Glas-allt-Shiel [note 1] is a lodge on the Balmoral Estate by the shore of Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.In its present form it was built in 1868 by Queen Victoria, who called it Glassalt, to be what she called her "widow's house" where she could escape from the world following the death of her husband Albert.
Loch Katrine is a serpentine lake orientated west-north-west - east-south-east, having a length of about 8 miles (13 km), with a maximum width of almost exactly 1 mile (1.6 km) between the mouths of the Letter burn and the Strone burn on the northern shore to a small bay on the opposite shore. The mean breadth, obtained by dividing the area of ...
The hill of Ben A'an.. The Trossachs glen lies between Ben A'an to the north and Ben Venue to the south, with Loch Katrine to the west and Loch Achray to the east. [11] It lies at the centre of the wider region, which is generally regarded as being bounded by Glen Gyle to the south, with the western boundary being the road between Stronachlachar and Aberfoyle.