Everything about Rannoch Moor totally explained
Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50
square miles (130
km²) of boggy
moorland to the west of
Loch Rannoch, in
Perth and Kinross and
Lochaber,
Highland, partly northern
Argyll and Bute,
Scotland. Rannoch Moor is designated a National Heritage site.
It is notable for its
wildlife, particularly famous for the sole British location for the
Rannoch-rush, named after the moor. It was also frequently visited by
Horace Donisthorpe, who collected many unusual species of ants on the moor and surrounding hilly ground. Today it's still one of the few remaining habitats for
Formica exsecta, the "narrow-headed ant", although recent surveys have failed to produce any sign of
Formica pratensis, which Donisthorpe recorded in the area in the early part of the
20th century.
Peat deposits pose major difficulties to builders of roads and railways. When the
West Highland Line was built across Rannoch Moor, its builders had to float the tracks on a mattress of tree roots, brushwood and thousands of tons of earth and ashes.
The
A82 road crosses through Rannoch Moor on its way to
Glen Coe and
Fort William.
In fiction
According to
Don Rosa,
Castle McDuck, the ancestral home of
Scrooge McDuck's family, the
Clan McDuck is located in
Dismal Downs somewhere on Rannoch Moor.
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