Highlands, the
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The distinguishing features of its culture were the style of dress (including the kilt and tartan) and the clan system, now in disuse except for historical observances.
It is famous for its rugged beauty.
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Set in the Scottish Highlands, the contestants complete a number of challenges to win money for the prize pot and must try to root out and banish the traitors at a roundtable discussion each night.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
As well as the Highlands, the challenge took in the Lake District and Snowdonia in Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2022
The battle was on — at Saigon, at My Tho, in the Delta, the Highlands, the Coastal Plains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
But if you cringe as I do at the idea of baking until overdone, get off at Highlands, the nearest shore town, built on a bluff some 300 feet above the Sandy Hook Bay.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
But with Charles Edward still in arms in the Highlands, the King could not bring himself to approach the foes of his house, and under no circumstances would he owe salvation to his son.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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