Southern Uplands

The mountain region of the Southern Uplands is the southernmost territory of the geographical trisection of Scotland. For contrasting against the Northern Highlands, the Southern Uplands and the Central Belt are summarized often called Lowlands.

Geography

The Mountain Zone extends from Stranraer on the Irish Sea in the west to East Lothian and the North Sea to the east. It is divided into two main parts, which are roughly separated by the river Nith and the parallel running several kilometers east M74 motorway. In the western, smaller Galloway Hills is the highest mountain in the entire Southern Uplands, the 843 m high Merrick, which is counted to the category of Corbetts. The terms of area significantly larger, eastern part is only slightly lower and is again divided into groups of associated hill Broad Law measures as the highest point in the Moffat Hills merely 3 meters less than the Merrick. The entire mountain region is characterized in contrast to the Highlands, mainly due to their hill -like character of - steeply rising or high mountains and deep valleys are found only rarely. Flora and fauna are still comparable. Geographically, it comprises in addition to the Scottish administration areas Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway and the Cheviot Hills in the north of England.