Summit Register

Corbett · Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Morven

872 m

2,861 ftDrop 387 mNJ 376 039

Finder: 9 Corbetts in Aberdeenshire

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMorven872Mona Gowan749Geallaig Hill743.2Pressendye619.1Ladylea Hill609.1
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmMorven872Mona Gowan749Geallaig Hill743.2
Looking north, 3827 km wide, heights ×1117 (method).

Morven is a Corbett of 872 m in Aberdeenshire. In the database's Tomintoul to Banff region it is the highest of ten register hills, above Ben Rinnes and eight others.

The key col lies 18.9 km away to the west, at 485 m. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Mona Gowan, reaches 749 m. The higher hill nearest to it, Mount Keen, is a Munro, 17.3 km to the south. The database describes the top as a large cairn.

To scale

Summit872 mKey col485 mdrop 387 msea level
Key col NJ 187 028, 18.9 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

872 m344th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

387 m306th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

17.3 km76th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Mona Gowan4.4 km north-west
    749 m
  2. 2
    Geallaig Hill9.8 km south-west
    743.2 m
  3. 3
    Pressendye12.4 km north-east
    619.1 m
  4. 4
    Ladylea Hill13.2 km north
    609.1 m
1234Mona GowanGeallaig HillPressendyeLadylea HillN5 km

Lists

  • 61st highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 287th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Mount Keen, 939.4 m, 17.3 km south
Region
21A: Tomintoul to Banff
OS map
37
Summit
Large cairn
DoBIH no.
1488
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Morven

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