SCOTLAND`S FAR NORTH

SCOTLAND’S FAR NORTH
The North Highlands
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the northernmost part of Britain
remote and sparsely populated
Sutherland and Assynt
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1a The North Highlands
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WHAT TO DO IN SCOTLAND’S FAR NORTH
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Hill walking
Fishing
Bird watching
Sea kayaking
Cycling
Golf
Wildlife cruises
Highland games
Castles
Gardens
Whisky
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HISTORY
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Neolithic farmers (4000 BC)
Bronze Age warriors (2000 BC)
The Picts (???)
Celtic peoples (1200 BC – AD 200)
Christianity
Vikings (late 8th cent.)
Wars of Independence (1296 – 1306)
Stewart Scotland (1300 – 1600)
Reformation (16th cent.)
Cromwell’s Commonwealth (1649 – 1660)
Royal Restoration (1660 – 1688)
Act of Uinion (1707)
The Jacobites (1715, 1745)
Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1850)
Highland clearances
Devolution (1999)
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4b A broch
4a Ring of Brodgar, Orkney
4e St Columba
4c Battle of Culloden, 1746
4d The Forth Rail Bridge
4f Scottish Parliament at Holyrood
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Maritime climate
The North Atlantic Drift
(the Gulf Stream)
Lewisian Gneiss
(3,000 million years old)
Sea lochs, numerous
islands, steep-side glens,
rocky summits, dramatic
coastline
Heather, red deer, foxes,
squirrels, sea birds, seals,
highland cattle, midges
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GEOGRAPHY
5a Road cutting
5f A puffin
5b Scourie Lodge
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HILL WALKING
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Wild, remote country
Extensive vistas, spectacular mountains
Lumpy moorlands, numerous lochans
High sea cliffs, spectacular headlands, fantastic
beaches
Unusual landscape, feeling of spaciousness
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HILL WALKING – LOCAL SPECIFICS
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Munros (3000 ft), Corbetts (2500 – 3000 ft)
Bad weather localised
Midges
Waterproof clothes and boots, gaiters
Gaelic and Norse place-names
Single-track roads
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RECOMMENDED
HIKES
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OS Landranger Map (1:50 000) Cape Wrath
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OS Landranger Map (1:50 000) Loch Assynt
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Foinaven
Ben Stack
Quinag
Suilven
Cul Mór
Ben Móre Coigach
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RECOMMENDED HIKES, FOINAVEN
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Foinaven – 914m (2999ft),
multiple-peak mnt., 3km ridge
Ben Stack – 721m (Robin Cook , †
6th August, 2005)
Quinag – 808m, Y-shape mnt.
Suilven – 731m, extraordinary
shape
Cul Mór – 849m,
Ben Móre Coigach – 743m
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BEN STACK, SUILVEN
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QUINAG, CUL MÓR
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COMMUNITY LIFE
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Tourism, fish farming, sheep farming,
crofting
Highland gatherings (Durness,
Lochinver)
Ceilidh (a traditional Gaelic social
gathering)
Football, badminton
Community groups, youth groups
Dances, parties, weddings
Sheepdog trials
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PLACES OF INTEREST
13a Kylesku Bridge
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13b Balnakeil Church
13e Ardvreck Castle
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13d Smoo Cave
HIGHLAND GAMES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Macdonald, F., The History of Scotland for Children, Parragon, 2004
Walmsley, A., Walking in Scotland’s Far North, Cicerone, 2003
http://www.discoverassynt.co.uk/index.php
http://www.visithighlands.com/northern-scottish-highlands/north-west-sutherland/
http://www.visithighlands.com/about/history/
http://www.visithighlands.com/seeanddo/places/natural/naturalfeatures/geopark/?view=Wide
Photographs
Author’s archive: 2b, 5c, 6a-c, 7a-d, 9a, 10b-d, 12, 13a, 13c
Petr Marhan: 10a, 11c-d, 13f, 14a-f, 15a-c
Sean MacKay: 9b-c, 11a-b, 13e
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jméno autora
Marek Blecha
název projektu
Informatika a digitální technika
číslo projektu
CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0158
číslo šablony
předmět/ třída
(ročník)
pořadové číslo
DUM
III/2 Inovace výuky pomocí ICT
datum
17. 4. 2013
název DUM
Scotland’s Far North
Anglické reálie/ oktáva
DUM-Bl-Aj-25
metodická
Prezentace aspektu britské kultury. Frontální výuka. Vhodné pro vyšší
poznámka k využití gymnázium.