List_of_Munros

List of Munro mountains

List of Munro mountains

Scottish mountains over 3,000 ft on the official list of Munros

This is a list of Munro mountains and Munro Tops in Scotland by height. Munros are defined as Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet (914.4 m) in height, and which are on the Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") official list of Munros.[lower-alpha 2][1][2] In addition, the SMC define Munro Tops, as Scottish peaks above 3,000 feet (914.4 m) that are not considered Munros.[1] Where the SMC lists a Munro Top, due to "insufficient separation", it will also list the "Parent Peak", a Munro, of the Munro Top.[lower-alpha 3][3] As of 6 September 2012, there were 282 Scottish Munros after the SMC confirmed that Beinn a' Chlaidheimh had been downgraded to a Corbett and as of 10 December 2020, there were 226 Scottish Munro Tops after Stob Coire na Cloiche, a Munro Top to Parent Peak Sgùrr nan Ceathramhnan, was surveyed at 912.5m and was deleted as a Munro Top and downgraded to a Corbett Top.[4] The current SMC list totals 508 summits.[5]

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While the SMC does not use a prominence metric for classifying Munros, all but one of the 282 Munros have a prominence above 30 metres (98 ft), the exception being Maoile Lunndaidh at 11 metres (36 ft);[lower-alpha 4][7] and apart from Am Basteir, all other Munros have a prominence above 50 metres (164.0 ft). In contrast, 69 Munro Tops have a prominence below 30 metres (98 ft), however, 14 Munro Tops have a prominence above 100 metres (328 ft), and the most prominent, Stob na Doire, is 144 metres (472 ft). The Munro Top, Càrn na Criche, would rank as the 5th largest Munro, if judged only on height.[8]

Some authors have attempted to redefine Munros based on objective metric criteria. As of 6 September 2012, 202 of the 282 Munros had a prominence above 150 metres (492 ft). Such hills have been called Real Munros or Marilyn Munros. No Munro Top had a prominence above 150 metres (492 ft) (i.e. no Munro Top was a Marilyn). 130 Munros had a height above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) and a prominence above 100 metres (328 ft), while 88 had a prominence above 200 metres (656 ft). Both categories have been called Metric Munros.[9]

The list of Munros dates from 1891, and 255 of the 282 Munros below, were on the original 1891 list;[2] while 28 of the 226 Munro Tops, were once Munros.[8] Climbers who complete all Munros in the prevailing Munro's Tables are called Munroists, and the first Munroist was A. E. Robertson in 1901; his is recorded as Munroist Number 1 on the official SMC list, which by 31 December 2022, numbered 7,390 names.[10] Munroists are eligible to join the Munro Society.[11]

Munro mountains by height

This list was downloaded from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") on 3 April 2024, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Munros ("M").[lower-alpha 5][14] The SMC updates its list of official Munros from time to time, and the DoBIH also updates its measurements as new surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded.

  Previously classed as a Corbett ("xC" § DoBIH codes).
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Munro Tops by height

This list was downloaded from the DoBIH in December 2021, and is restricted to peaks which the DoBIH marks as being Munro Tops ("MT").[lower-alpha 5][14] The SMC updates its list of official Munro Tops from time to time, and the DoBIH also updates its measurements as more detailed surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again.

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Bibliography

  • Donald Bennet; Rab Anderson (2006). The Munros: Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers' Guide. Scottish Mountaineering Club. ISBN 978-0907521945.
  • Sir Hugh T. Munro; Derek A. Bearhop (1997). Munro's Tables (Scottish Mountaineering Club District Guides). Scottish Mountaineering Club. ISBN 978-0907521532.

DoBIH codes

The DoBIH uses the following codes for the various classifications of mountains and hills in the British Isles, which many of the above peaks also fall into:[15][16]


prefixes:
  • s sub
  • x deleted

suffixes:
= twin

See also

Notes

  1. While the SMC does not use a prominence criterion for classifying a Munro, all but one of the 282 Munros below have a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet), the exception being Maoile Lunndaidh at 11 metres (36 feet); and apart from Am Basteir, all Munros have a prominence above 50 metres (160 feet).
  2. For Munros, the Scottish Mountaineering Club use a quantitative height threshold of 3,000 feet (914.4 m), but a qualitative requirement of "sufficient separation", instead of prominence.
  3. In the DoBIH, this is the "Parent (SMC)" code, which the DoBIH define as follows: "The hill number and name of the Munro or Donald to which Munro Tops and Donald Tops are linked. For Munro Tops the hierarchy is shown in Munro's Tables. For a few tops the parent is topographically incorrect on current mapping (i.e. not the hill linked by the highest col), e.g. the SMC parent of 527 Càrn Lochan is Cairn Gorm rather than Ben Macdui, the parent of 1015 Stob Cadha Gobhlach is Sgurr Fiona instead of Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill, and the parent of 811 Ciste Dhubh is Mam Sodhail not Carn Eighe."
  4. 281 of the 282 Scottish Munros have an official OSI prominence above 30 m, except Maoile Lunndaidh, who was found in a 2014 survey to be lower than nearby Creag Toll a' Choin.[6] Thus, Maoile Lunndaidh had its prominence reduced from 400 m to just under 11 m, and the 400 m of prominence given to Creag Toll a' Choin. Note that Creag Toll a' Choin had previously been a Munro until later mapping favoured Maoile Lunndaidh. Munro Tops are summits that are over 3,000ft, but considered to be a subsidiary top of a nearby Munro. There are currently 227 Munro Tops. The Murdos, a list created by Alan Dawson to bring objectivity to the classification of subsidiary summits of Munros, are Scottish hills over 3,000ft with a minimum drop of 30 metres on all sides. All Munros are Murdos, but not all Munro Tops are Murdos. There are 442 Murdos.
  5. The Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") is the most referenced database for the classification of peaks in the British Isles,[12] and the DoBIH is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License".[13]

References

  1. [1]
    "The Munros". HillBaggingUK. 2018. A Munro is a Scottish mountain over 3000 ft in height, distinct and separate from its surrounding mountains. Munro's Tables were originally compiled in 1891 by Sir Hugh Munro, but are now revised and maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club. [...] A Munro Top is also a summit over 3000 ft, but considered to be a subsidiary top of a Munro.
  2. [2]
    Sir Hugo T. Munro; Derek A. Bearhop (1997). Munro's Tables (Scottish Mountaineering Club District Guides). Scottish Mountaineering Club. ISBN 978-0907521532.
  3. [3]
    "Munros". Scottish Mountaineering Club. 2018. The list of distinct Scottish peaks of 3,000 ft (910 m) and over, of "sufficient separation" from their neighbouring peaks. The list that was originally drawn up by Sir H.T. Munro in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in 1891 was unfinished at the time of his death. Munro did not write down a precise definition of what he meant by "sufficient separation", though the character of a mountain did enter into it. Through regular use these hills have become known as the Munros.
  4. [4]
    "The Database of British and Irish Hills - Stob Coire na Cloiche (850, 11A)". The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH). 10 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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    "Hill Lists: Munros and Munro Tops". Scottish Mountaineering Club. The current Munro list contains 282 peaks. The SMC maintains the list of Munros. In recent times the list has only been altered to reflect updates to nationally recognised topographic data (i.e. data recognised and adopted by the Ordnance Survey). We record all such changes as hill news. Munro Tops are the list of distinct Scottish peaks of 3000ft and over, that fail to meet the criteria of "sufficient separation" from their neighbouring peaks (see above). There are currently 226 Munro Tops.
  6. [6]
    Alan Dawson. "Surveying Report 2014". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk). Creag Toll a'Choin was never officially a twin but turned out to be 0.35m higher than Maoile Lunndaidh. This was a surprise, as some OS maps show Maoile Lunndaidh to be 2m higher, so a second survey was carried out to confirm the finding.
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    "Maoile Lunndaidh". HillBaggingUK. 2018. Prominence 10.5m Class Munro
  8. [8]
    Chris Cocker; Graham Jackson (2018). "The Munros and Tops 1891-2015". Database of British and Irish Hills.
  9. [9]
    "Metric Munros". Peak Bagger. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
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    Clerk of the List (October 2018). "Compleators". Scottish Mountaineering Club. The SMC hold a record of Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds compleators.
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    "The Munro Society". The Munro Society. 2018. Founded in 2002 membership is open to anyone who has climbed all the Munro summits as listed in Munro's Tables at the time of compleation - currently there are 282 mountains of Munro status with a height of 3000ft or more above sea level.
  12. [12]
    Jackson, Mark. "More Relative Hills of Britain" (PDF). Relative Hills of Britain. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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    "Copyright". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018. We place no restrictions on use of the data by third parties and encourage authors of other websites and applications to do so. We just ask users to observe the terms of the Creative Commons license
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    "Background to the lists". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2 August 2018.
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    "Classification". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018.
  16. [16]
    "Welcome to the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH)". HillBagging. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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