Summit Register

Corbett · Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Morrone

859.5 m

2,820 ftDrop 157.6 mNO 132 886

Finder: 9 Corbetts in Aberdeenshire

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMorrone859.5Creag Bhalg668.2Creag nan Gabhar834Carn na Drochaide818Carn an t-Sagairt Mor1,047
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMorrone859.5Creag Bhalg668.2Creag nan Gabhar834
Looking north, 2514 km wide, heights ×57 (method).

Morrone is a Corbett of 859.5 m in Aberdeenshire. Its drop clears the 150 m Marilyn standard by only 7.6 m.

It stands 191.3 m above its nearest neighbour, Creag Bhalg, 4.8 km to the north-west. On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Beinn Luibhean (859.7 m) and Caisteal Abhail (859 m). Its nearest higher summit, Sgor Mor (886.9 m, 6.3 km south), is a listed top not profiled here. The database describes the top as a embedded rock 4m s of large cairn.

To scale

Summit859.5 mKey col701.9 msea level
Key col NO 1241 8516, 3.5 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

859.5 m361st highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

157.6 m844th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

6.3 km251st most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Creag Bhalg4.8 km north-west
    668.2 m
  2. 2
    Creag nan Gabhar5.1 km south-east
    834 m
  3. 3
    Carn na Drochaide5.2 km north
    818 m
  4. 4
    Carn an t-Sagairt Mor8.7 km south-east
    1,047 m
1234Creag BhalgCreag nan GabharN5 km

Lists

  • 78th highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 305th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Sgor Mor, 886.9 m, 6.3 km south
Region
06B: Pitlochry to Braemar & Blairgowrie
OS map
43
Summit
Embedded rock 4m S of large cairn
DoBIH no.
444
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Morrone

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures