Canisp is an isolated mountain in the Assynt district of Sutherland, in the far northwest Highlands of Scotland, reaching 847 meters. It rises from a base of ancient Lewisian gneiss, is built mainly of Torridonian sandstone, and is capped by a band of pale Cambrian quartzite that gives its summit a distinctive light grey crown. Canisp took its present isolated shape when the softer rock around it was stripped away by glaciation, leaving the peak standing above the ice sheet as a nunatak, one of the classic inselbergs of the Assynt landscape.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Canisp
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Canisp
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: WDPA protected areas at the location of Canisp
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA feature: Assynt - CoigachQuote, WDPA feature: Assynt - Coigach
"desig_eng": "National Scenic Area"
Wikidata: Canisp
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