Portal:Scotland/Did you know/18




 * ...that the Corbett hill Beinn Chuirn (pictured) has Scotland's largest known deposits of gold?


 * ...that Alma Cadzow is a former news reader, who once was so upset by an item on animal cruelty she cried on television?


 * ...that the name of Stob Choire Claurigh in Scotland translates from Gaelic as “Peak of the Brawling Corrie”, referring to the roaring of the stags inhabiting the corries of the mountain during the breeding season?


 * ...that Hinba, an island in Scotland of unknown location was the site of a small monastery associated with the church of Saint Columba on Iona?