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Great Glen

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noun

  1. Also known as: Glen More.   Glen Albyn.  a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Their report drew on research done in the Highlands' Great Glen and continental Europe.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2026

Forbes, who has been an SNP MSP since 2016, covers a constituency which stretches from Mallaig on the west coast through the Great Glen to the Cromarty Firth.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2025

Grace, from Great Glen in Leicestershire, was diagnosed following the test during the summer holidays.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2021

Ambitious walkers take on the West Highland and Great Glen ways, railway buffs catch the rattling West Highland line, and motorists speed north to Mallaig for ferries to Skye, the Small Isles and Knoydart.

From The Guardian Jun. 9, 2012

The Great Glen of Scotland—Glen-More itself—is not grander.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

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