Schiehallion

Perth and Kinross · United Kingdom

Schiehallion, United Kingdom
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A conical quartzite peak in Highland Perthshire whose regular shape was used in an eighteenth-century experiment to estimate the mass of the Earth. Its isolated position gives broad views over lochs and moors.

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