Summit Register

Corbett · Highland, Scotland

Sgurr an Fhuarain

901 m

2,956 ftDrop 183 mNM 987 979

Finder: 134 Corbetts in Highland

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmSgurr an Fhuarain901Sgurr Mor1,003Fraoch Bheinn857.3Gairich918.8Sgurr Mhurlagain880
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmSgurr an Fhuarain901Sgurr Mor1,003Fraoch Bheinn857.3
Looking north, 1211 km wide, heights ×36 (method).

Sgurr an Fhuarain is a Corbett of 901 m in Highland. It sits below Sgurr Mor (Highland, NM965980), only 2.2 km to the west and 102 m higher.

On the Corbetts height ladder it sits between Ben Tee (901.6 m) and Beinn Mheadhonach (Perth and Kinross) (900.9 m). The higher hill nearest to it, Sgurr Mor, is a Munro, 2.2 km to the west. The summit is marked by a trig point. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 33 and 40.

To scale

Summit901 mKey col718 msea level
Key col NM 9752 9757, 1.2 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

901 m303rd highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

183 m739th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

2.2 km741st most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Sgurr Mor2.2 km west
    1,003 m
  2. 2
    Fraoch Bheinn3.9 km south
    857.3 m
  3. 3
    Gairich4.2 km north-east
    918.8 m
  4. 4
    Sgurr Mhurlagain4.3 km south-east
    880 m
1234Sgurr MorFraoch BheinnGairichSgurr MhurlagainN2 km

Lists

  • 20th highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 238th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Sgurr Mor, 1,003 m, 2.2 km west
Region
10B: Knoydart to Glen Kingie
OS map
33, 40
Summit
Trig point
DoBIH no.
743
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Sgurr an Fhuarain

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