`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

Bedouin music is characterized by the poetic songs that interpret the pastoralists in the area of the Highlands.

West of Markovo it is in the Anadyr Highlands ( moderate mountains and valleys with a few trees ) and east of Markovo it moves into the Anadyr lowlands ( very flat treeless tundra with lakes and bogs ).

The third division of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged mass of mountains forming the largest continuous area of its altitude in the whole continent, little of its surface falling below, while the summits reach heights of 4600 m to 4900 m ( 15, 000 to 16, 000 ft ).

Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.

The larger, northern portion of the basin is bounded within Chad by the Tibesti Mountains in the northwest, the Ennedi Plateau in the northeast, the Ouaddaï Highlands in the east along the border with Sudan, the Guéra Massif in central Chad, and the Mandara Mountains along Chad's southwestern border with Cameroon.

The most important of these streams is the Batha, which in the rainy season carries water west from the Ouaddaï Highlands and the Guéra Massif to Lake Fitri.

* Cambridge Highlands ( Area 12 ) is bordered on the north and east by railroad tracks, on the south by Fresh Pond, and on the west by the Belmont border.

The northern portion of Cape Breton Island is dominated by the Cape Breton Highlands, commonly shortened to simply the " Highlands ", which are an extension of the Appalachian mountain chain.

The Cabot Trail is a scenic road circuit around and over the Cape Breton Highlands with spectacular coastal vistas ; over 400, 000 visitors drive the Cabot Trail each summer and fall.

Round the house, in the rift valley, is farmland, but within a short distance to the north-west, on the other side of the fault, are the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

Born in Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands in the 16th century, MacLeod is one of a number of Immortals.

* Shinty is a Scottish game now played primarily in the Highlands

A fiction sometimes maintained is that a haggis is a small Scottish animal with legs on one side longer than those on the other, so that it can run around the steep hills of the Scottish Highlands without falling over.

An old custom in the Highlands, which has survived to a small extent and seen some degree of revival, is to celebrate Hogmanay with the saining ( Scots for ' protecting, blessing ') of the household and livestock.

Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century.

Water is being exploited through the 30-year, multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project ( LHWP ), which was initiated in 1986.

The Loch Ness Monster () is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately 84 kilometers long and 66 kilometers wide, with a maximum depth of 15 meters, and an elevation of 1, 840 meters.

Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea.

Allamuchy Mountain and Jenny Jump Mountain are part of the New York – New Jersey Highlands, also known as the Reading Prong.

Category: Mountains and hills of the Central Highlands

In the south, elevations of over are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands and in hilltops near the Madawaska River in Renfrew County.

Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids ( part of the Carpathian Mountains ) and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.

The terrain of the county is mostly hilly, especially in the Hudson Highlands in the southwestern corner and the Taconic Mountains to the northeast.

* Vostok Subglacial Highlands, an east extension of Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in Antarctica

These run to Newcastle and the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands and the South Coast.

( Tobacco Root Range, Highlands Mountains, McCartney Mountain, The Pioneers, The Ruby Range, The Gravellies and the Snowcrest Range ) The geology of the area includes some of the oldest rocks dating back over 2. 7 billion years.

In terms of physical geography, nearly all of Hardyston ( excluding the portion of the Township west of Hamburg along Route 94 ) lies within the New York-New Jersey Highlands, part of the greater Crystalline Appalachians that extend as far south as the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The base of the continental glacier scoured the bedrock terrain across which it moved, thus plucking large and small blocks of rock from their position in the Ramapo Mountains and Hudson Highlands.

Cashiers and the nearby towns of Highlands, Glenville, and Sapphire make up a popular mountain vacation area near the southern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the easternmost front of the Appalachian Mountains.

It consists of hilly countryside rising in the South to the Lusatian Highlands near the Czech border, and then even higher to form the Zittau Hills, the small northern part of the Lusatian Mountains ( Lužické hory / Lausitzer Gebirge ) in the Czech Republic.

Further to the east is the Kasagi Mountains separating the basin from Yamato Highlands.

USGS map colored by Paleogeology | paleogeological areas and demarcating the sections of the U. S physiographic regions: Laurentian Upland ( area 1 ), Atlantic Plain ( 2-3 ), Appalachian Mountains | Appalachian Highlands ( 4-10 ), Interior Plains ( 11-13 ), Interior Highlands ( 14-15 ), Geography of the United States Rocky Mountain System | Rocky Mountain System ( 16-19 ), Intermontane Plateaus ( 20-22 ), & Pacific Mountain System ( 23-25 )

In Africa, it is found in the Atlas Mountains, the Ethiopian Highlands and down from Sudan to northeastern Zaire, central Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Rising in the Silurian and Ordovician rocks of the Miramichi Highlands, an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, the tributaries of the Miramichi River flow eastward into the New Brunswick Lowland, which dominates the eastern and central part of the province along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Afromontane region, from the Ethiopian Highlands to the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, including the East African Rift.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

Figger we got to be plumb careful with any of you Highlands big shots ''.

You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.

There were other significant populations of convicts from non-English speaking areas of Britain, such as the Scottish Highlands and Wales.

Two locations on the Moon were given primary consideration for exploration by the Apollo 16 expedition, the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus.

Edward Dwelly in Bealltuinn ( 1911 ) describes a 1 May custom of his day, practised in the Scottish Highlands, where young people met on the moors, lit a bonfire and made an oatmeal cake toasted at the embers.

* Aigas Field Centre Beaver Project – history of a pair of European beavers released into a large enclosure in the Highlands of Scotland.

Stories of banshees were also prevalent in the West Highlands of Scotland.

Even before the completion of the new house, the pattern of the royal couple's life in the Highlands was soon established.

Although mainly concentrated in the northern Highlands and the Islands, a few examples occur in the Borders ( for example Edin's Hall Broch ), on the west coast of Dumfries and Galloway and near Stirling.

East of the lake, the basin rises gradually to the Ouaddaï Highlands, which mark Chad's eastern border and also divide the Chad and Nile watersheds.

Following infrequent rains in the Ennedi Plateau and Ouaddaï Highlands, water may flow through depressions called enneris and wadis.

Higher land to the northeast and to the east merges into the Central Highlands of southern Vietnam.

This area of tropical forest has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Cameroonian Highlands forests ecoregion with Mount Cameroon considered separately because as an active volcano it has a distinct environment from the other mountains.