Grampian Mountains

British  

/ ˈɡræmpɪən /

plural noun

1. a mountain system of central Scotland, extending from the southwest to the northeast and separating the Highlands from the Lowlands. Highest peak: Ben Nevis, 1344 m (4408 ft)

2. a mountain range in SE Australia, in W Victoria

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Example Sentences

Mr Povlsen is said to have fallen in love with the Highlands during a childhood fishing trip, and now owns about 220,000 acres spread across 12 estates in Sutherland and the Grampian mountains.

From BBC

The Povlsens describe themselves as custodians of their land, which stretches across Sutherland and the Grampian mountains, and are said to be regular visitors to their estates.

From BBC

It sits 15 miles west of Perth on the skirts of the Grampian mountains, looking south across the valley of Strathearn towards the Torlum and Laggan hills.

From The Guardian

The foresaid high Grampian mountains abounded with spasmodiac opening, or excavated parts, that if a loud cry made at accomodious distant, they would sounded the same in such miraculous manner, that one apt to conceive that each parts of those spasmodic rocks imbibed the vociferation which is depressing gradually the sonorific sound to the expiry thereof.

From The New Yorker

This, he adds, is why his Grampian Mountains have an “asperity aspect”—it’s M’Diarmid’s version of “wild appearance.”

From The New Yorker