I was wondering idly if the chain of lochs and rivers cutting across Scotland made an island of its north, and found this ...

But there's one service routinely touted as Britain's best: The Caledonian ... Cruising through the mountains and meadows that connect the bucolic English lowlands to Scotland's snow-capped ...

As Agricola advanced, conquering southern Scotland by AD 83, the Caledonian tribes faced imminent ... at a place called Mons Graupius (the Grampian mountains), the Caledonians confronted them.

Agricola was the Roman general who conquered much of Britain south of Scotland.. The mountains of the Grampians would have made it harder for the Romans to find and then fight the Caledonian tribes.

Before the closure of the Iapetus Ocean, Scotland was attached to Greenland ... leaving behind the Caledonian–Appalachian mountain belt to mark the join. These tectonic ideas have mostly stood ...

As Agricola advanced, conquering southern Scotland by AD 83, the Caledonian tribes faced imminent ... at a place called Mons Graupius (the Grampian mountains), the Caledonians confronted them.