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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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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

Parts of Argyll, Lochaber and Wester Ross are expected to be the worst affected areas, while river levels around Speyside and Great Glen are most at risk of reaching high levels.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024

It was designed by German bridge engineer Hellmut Homberg to withstand extreme weather and potential earthquakes caused by geological movement in the Great Glen geological fault.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022

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

Possibly it was owing to this that in the middle of August the Government rather relaxed their vigilance along the Great Glen.

From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew

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