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Much of Scotland is rugged and mountainous

During the last ice age, around 18,000 years ago glaciers and great sheets of ice attacked Scotland's hard, ancient rocks, leaving behind a landscape of high moorlands and steep-sided mountains separated by deep valleys, often filled by lakes known as lochs.

Significant Rivers in Scotland

Significant Mountains in Scotland

RIVERS	LENTGH	MOUNTAINS	HIGHT
River Tay	117 miles long	Ben Nevis	4406 feet high
River Spey	110 miles long	Ben Macdhui	4296 feet high
River Clyde	106 miles long	Braeriach	4252 feet high
River Tweed	96 miles long	Cairntoul	4241 feet high
River Dee	96 miles long	Cairborm	4084 feet high
River Don	82 miles long	Ben Lawers	3984 feet high
River Forth	66 miles long

Significant Loch's in Scotland

LOCHS	AREA	MEAN DEPTH	MAX DEPTH
Loch Lomond	27 sq. miles	121 feet	623 feet
Loch Ness	21 sq. miles	433 feet	754 feet
Loch Awe	14 sq. miles	105 feet	307 feet