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United Kingdom : Scotland

5.9 km (3.7 miles) NNW of Clunes, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Approx. altitude: 594 m (1948 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 57°S 175°E

Accuracy: 8 m (26 ft)
Quality: good

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

#2: View West #3: View North #4: View East #5: The Confluence #6: All the GPS zeros #7: Here's the new road... #8: ... and the power station #9: ...several someones have been here recently #10: It's very lonely and isolated here - be prepared #11: Looking toward the confluence from below

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  57°N 5°W (visit #6) (secondary) 

#1: View South

(visited by David Williams)

07-May-2017 -- What a difference 11 years make.

I've called off visits to this confluence twice - because of unsuitable weather. I'm glad I waited as I got a lovely sunny day and someone has built a road most of the way to the confluence. Its for a new hydro-electric scheme - with a dam up near the tree-line and a generator house close to the public car-park. There remains just a few hundred metres of path though woodland and then the, unchanged, challenging final ascent.

I missed a major off-road motorcycle event by 3 days so had the entire trip to myself - apart from a couple of hundred red deer.

If you do visit this confluence please also make sure you drive along the shore of Loch Arkaig.


 All pictures
#1: View South
#2: View West
#3: View North
#4: View East
#5: The Confluence
#6: All the GPS zeros
#7: Here's the new road...
#8: ... and the power station
#9: ...several someones have been here recently
#10: It's very lonely and isolated here - be prepared
#11: Looking toward the confluence from below
ALL: All pictures on one page
  Notes
This CP can be and is dangerous especially if you are on your own or it is less than perfect weather. Gordon Spence visited this point in August and in the space of 30 minutes on the hillside it went from sun, to rain, to sun, to rain, and back to sun again. If later in the year, it can white out in minutes.