Most northerly munro in Scotland. Very remote and craggy area but beautiful. Ben Hope (Hill of the Bay) is 927m high.
The west side of the mountain, which overlooks Strath More and the head of Loch Hope, is very steep along its whole length, with two tiers of crags, the higher one forming the edge of the main south-north ridge of Ben Hope.
This is the street corner where the tragic murder of teenage Ben Kinsella took place....... PLEASE NO MORE
Check streetveiw at this point... there are still tributes being left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Kinsella
Construction of Fort Charles was begun in 1671, with the aim of protecting Charleston and its harbour. Mounting 26 cannon, Fort Charles was the main fort on the island, although there were numerous other, smaller, gun emplacements. The reason for all of these fortifications was the protection of Nevis' lucrative sugar trade, which at one time was more profitable for Britain than all of the Nort...
Big Ben, surrounding surprisingly like the famous clocktower in England, is actually a volcano on an island approximately 2400 miles from Australia. It peak, Mawson's Peak is an active volcano, and belonging to Australia, this is Australia's only active volcano.
One of the largest movie studios in the world, Cinecitta is the place where parts of international productions, like Ben Hur, and italian movies like Fellini's films were made.
Denmarks most famous cemetary. Here you can find the graves of Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Oersted (discovered electromagnetism), Soren Kierkegaard, Niels Bohr and family and Ben Webster.
Fort Charles is an old British fort on the island of St. Kitts. It's capture by the French was the reason for the construction of the more famous Brimstone Hill Fortress, which overlooks it.
The fort today is not in good shape. It was abandoned by the British in 1854, and used from 1890 to 1996 as a Leper colony. Since then, it has been completely abandoned and is overgrown with...
Located 25 km southeast of Saba, 53 km south of Saint Martin and 12 km northwest of Saint Kitts, Saint Eustatius (Statia) is the second largest of the northern Netherlands Antilles with an area of 21 km². The island measures 7.9 km in length with a maximum width of 4 km, orientated northwest to southeast, and sits at the northern end of a shallow submarine bank that is also home to Saint Kitts ...
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