Queensberry (hill)
| Queensberry | ||
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 South flank of Queensberry as seen from Wee Queensberry |
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| height | 697 m | |
| location | Southern Uplands , Scotland | |
| Mountains | Lowther Hills | |
| Coordinates | 55 ° 16 '55 " N , 3 ° 35' 36" W | |
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The Queensberry is a " Marilyn " classified hill at the southern end of the Lowther Hills in southern Scotland . At 697 m above sea level, it is the highest point in the southern Lowthers.
Location and surroundings
The Queensberry rises in the center of the former county of Dumfriesshire . It acts as a weather divide between the river valleys of Annandale in the west and Nithsdale in the east . To the south is a slightly lower hill with 512 m, which is called Little Queensberry or Wee Queensberry .
history
etymology
According to George Chalmers , the term is Queens- berry from the slurring of the Anglo-Saxon hall name Queens- mountain originated. The suffix '-berg' generally indicates a hill or elevation.
Deonyms
The British nobility titles of " Duke of Queensberry " or " Marquess of Queensberry " are named after this hill. In 1865, John Sholto Douglas , the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, worked with John Graham Chambers to draft the basic rules of modern boxing , now known as the Queensberry Rules . This set of rules in turn served as an eponym for the German girl group Queensberry .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ronald Turnbull: Walking in the Southern Uplands . 44 best hill days in southern Scotland. Cicerone Press Limited, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78362-129-3 , Walk 12: Queensberry.
- ^ David Brewster (Ed.): The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia . tape 8 . J. & E. Parker, 1832, pp. 21 .
- ↑ a b c d George Chalmers: Caledonia . Or an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the Most Ancient to the Present Times. tape 3 . Cadell and Davies, 1824, pp. 48, 49 .
- ↑ Wee Queensberry - 512m. In: peakbook.org. Glittertind Forlag AS, accessed December 12, 2014 .
- ↑ The "Popstars" horror ends with Queensberry. In: time online . Axel Springer SE , December 19, 2008, accessed on December 12, 2014 .