This is a list of Donald mountains in Scotland by height.
Donalds were defined in 1935 by
Scottish Mountaineering Club
Established in 1889, the Scottish Mountaineering Club is a club for climbing and mountaineering in Scotland.
History
The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) was formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 1889, as one of Scotland's first mountaineering ...
("SMC") member Percy Donald, as
Scottish Lowlands
The Lowlands ( or , ; , ) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.
The region is characterised by its relatively flat or gently rolling terrain as opposed to the mountainous landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. This area includes ci ...
mountains over in height, the general requirement to be called a
"mountain" in the British Isles, and over in prominence, and which also had "sufficient topographical merit" that he outlined in a complex formula.
This formula splits Donalds into Donald Hills and Donald Tops. The SMC define Donald Tops as: "elevations in the Scottish Lowlands of at least in height with a drop of at least between each elevation and any higher elevation. Further, elevations separated from higher elevations by a drop of less than are required to have "sufficient topographical merit". In addition, the SMC define Donald Hills as being: "defined from Donald Tops, where a Hill is the highest Top with a separation of 17 units or less. A unit is either along a Top's connecting ridge or in elevation between the Top and its connecting bealach/col. The separation is the sum of these two measures."
The SMC note that: "Percy Donald's original Tables are seen as a complete entity, unlike the Munros, Corbetts and Grahams"; thus many Donalds are also
Corbetts or
Grahams.
Percy Donald's original 1935 list recorded 133 Donalds, however since 1997, the SMC records 140 Donalds in the Scottish lowlands, split into 89 Donald Hills and 51 Donald Tops.
While the prominence of Donald Hills is over , the prominence of a Donald Top can range from , as in the case of
Cairn Hill West Top, to , in the case of
Beninner.
New Donalds were introduced by Alan Dawson in his 1995 book, ''The Grahams and the New Donalds'', with a prominence threshold of , and that the location was south of the
Highland Boundary Fault
The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two different geological terranes which give rise to two distinct physiographic ter ...
;
there are 118 New Donalds, and while all Donald Hills are New Donalds, 22 Donald Tops are not. Climbers who climb all SMC Donalds are called ''Donaldists'', the first being Percy Donald on 23 May 1933; a list is maintained. The most recent material change was on 18 February 2021, when
Dugland was reinstated as a Donald Top.
Donald mountains by height
This list is from the ''
Database of British and Irish Hills
The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt ...
'' ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Donalds ("D" and "DT").
The SMC does not update the list of Donalds (they are fixed), however the DoBIH also updates their measurements as more surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again.
Bibliography
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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:
suffixes:
= twin
See also
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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
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List of mountains of the British Isles by height
This article provides access to lists of mountains in Britain and Ireland by height and by prominence. (See Lists of mountains below.) Height and prominence are the most important metrics for the classifications of mountains by the UIAA; with ...
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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, topographic prominence, prominence, and other criteria such as topographic isolation, isolation. These lists are used f ...
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Lists of mountains in Ireland
In these lists of mountains in Ireland, those within Northern Ireland, or on the Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border, are marked with an asterisk, while the rest are within the Republic of Ireland. Where mountains are ranked by height ...
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List of Munro mountains
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List of Murdo mountains
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List of Furth mountains in the British Isles
This is a list of Furth mountains in Britain and Ireland by height. Furths are defined as mountains that meet the classification criteria to be a Scottish Munro, including being over in elevation, but which are ''furth'' of (i.e. "outside" of) ...
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List of Marilyns in the British Isles
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List of P600 mountains in the British Isles
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Notes
References
External links
The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH) the largest database of British Isles mountains
Hill Bagging UK & Ireland the searchable interface for the DoBIH
The Relative Hills of Britain a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification
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