Great Glen

British  

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

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Example Sentences

Some of this can be attributed to geological faults including the Great Glen and the Highland Boundary Fault.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

However, a number of other towns and villages have also been hit by flooding, including Great Glen, where Cimi Kazazi waded through waist-high water to rescue a woman from a stranded car.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025

The Great Glen Fault is probably the best known of the fault zones.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 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

DALRADIAN, in geology, a series of metamorphic rocks, typically developed in the high ground which lies E. and S. of the Great Glen of Scotland.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various