A waterway, about 97 km (60 mi) long, cutting diagonally across northern Scotland from Loch Linnhe on the southwest to Moray Firth on the northeast. Opened in 1822, it is used today mainly by pleasure craft. a canal (=artificial river) in Scotland which joins the Atlantic Ocean to a line of lochs (=lakes) , which then connect to the North Sea
Range of mountains in northwestern Europe, extending in a southwest-northeast direction from Ireland, Wales, and northern England through Norway. The mountains developed in the period from the start of the Cambrian Period (543 million years ago) to the end of the Silurian Period ( 417 million years ago). Remnants also exist in eastern Greenland
{i} formation of mountains event which took place during the Silurian and Devonian Periods of the Palaeozoic Era (this formation was recorded in the mountains of northern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and west Norway)
a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean; runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end; now little used