This is a list of Corbett mountains in Scotland by height. Corbetts are defined as Scottish mountains between 2,500–3,000 feet (762.0–914.4 m) in height with a prominence over 500 feet (152.4 m);[1] solely imperial measurement thresholds.[2][3]

Corbett
Goat Fell is the highest point on the Isle of Arran, and the Corbett with the greatest prominence
Highest point
Elevation	over 2,500–3,000 ft (762.0–914.4 m)
Prominence	over 500 ft (152.4 m)
Geography
Location	222 Scotland

The first list was compiled in the 1920s by John Rooke Corbett, a Bristol-based climber and Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") member, and was published posthumously, after his sister passed it to the SMC, in the 1953 edition of Munro's Tables.[2][4] Corbetts are the next category down from the Munros and Munro Tops in terms of height (e.g. below the 3,000 feet (914.4 m) threshold), but their explicit prominence threshold of 500 feet (152 m), ensure they are material peaks.[2] By definition, all Corbetts, given their prominence, are Marilyns.[5] The SMC keeps a list of Corbetts.[1]

As of October 2018^[update], there were 222 Corbetts in Scotland.[6] 21 of these 222 Corbetts have a prominence that exceeds the P600 threshold of 600 metres (1,969 ft), which would class them as "Majors".[6] The highest Corbett, Beinn a' Chlaidheimh, at 914 metres (2,999 ft) is just below the threshold for a Munro, a status it held until it was demoted in 2012 based on new surveys;[7] it ranks as the 478th highest mountain in the British Isles, on the Simms classification.[6] The Corbett with the greatest prominence is Goat Fell at 874 metres (2,867 ft), which ranks it as the 16th most prominent mountain in the British Isles.[6]

Climbers who climb all of the Corbetts are called Corbetteers, with the first being John Corbett himself who completed them in 1943. The second completion occurred many years later by William McKnight Docharty in May 1960;[2][8] a list of Corbetteers is maintained, which as of July 2018, totalled 678.[8][9]

Corbett mountains by height

This list was downloaded from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in September 2020, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Corbetts ("C").[lower-alpha 1][12] The SMC updates their list of official Corbetts from time to time, and the DoBIH also updates their 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.

Bibliography

• G.Scott Johnstone; Donald J. Bennet; Hamish M. Brown; Rob Milne (2002). The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills. Scottish Mountaineering Club. ISBN 978-0907521716.
• Alan Dawson; Dave Hewitt (1999). Corbett Tops and Corbetteers (TACit Tables). TACit Press. ISBN 978-0953437610.

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:[13][14]

Prefixes: *s sub; *x deleted

Suffixes: = twin

See also

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• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence
• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• List of mountains in Ireland
• List of Munro mountains in Scotland
• List of Murdos (mountains)
• List of Furth mountains in the British Isles
• List of Marilyns in the British Isles
• List of P600 mountains in the British Isles

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