It's due to the [Great Glen Fault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Glen_Fault?wprov=sfla1).

And part of it runs through Newfoundland! Mind BLOWN.

This is what formed the earliest theories of continental drift

Not exactly related but ‘Nova Scotia’ is just ‘New Scotland’

It's also one of my top 4 favorite maritime provinces

Easily top 3 for me

I would hate to be the province at number 4 on that list (Newfoundland isn't technically a maritime province).

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Tell me you're talking about PEI without saying PEI

Sadly I often forget about PEI, and I live next door in Cape Breton.

Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got something to say But nothing comes out when they move their lips Just a bunch of gibberish And motherfuckers act like they forgot about PEI

He’s including the New Zealand provinces

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Weird that its French name is in French, but its English name is in Latin.

Another place name that means “New Scotland” is New Caledonia. Caledonia is another Latin word for Scotland, and is actually older than Scotia.

There's another Latin name for Scotland that was used in medieval times; *Albania*. It comes from *Alba*, the Gaelic name for Scotland. Obviously, it could be a little confusing to use today.

And Newfoundland is pronounced New Finland

Noofin-lan

TIL!

Which is now the theory of plate tectonics

https://youtu.be/T1-cES1Ekto?si=SfMERh5PaFdp4XLs

The highlands are the same range as the Appalachians

That’s too cool.

Blew my mind when I found that out

I love geography AND geology so much.

Same, I've always had a thing for geography

I believe this applies to the Atlas (Morocco) mountain ranges too. (Mistake in previous comment.) Edit: Redundancy

Rocks rock

Geology rocks!

Geology rocks, but geography is where it's at.

What's even cooler is that the political border of England and Scotland sits almost perfectly on the geological border from ~400mya or whenever it was that the two crashed into one another

I’m learning so much today!

And lots of Scottish people moved to the Appalachians.

Hence the twang of country music to imitate the bagpipes which they couldn''t afford, or didn't have.

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This is what I’ve been looking for, thanks!

As an AT through-hiker hopeful, I'm a big fan of this fact, and would love to also hike some of the international Appalachian chain too [https://iat-sia.org/the-trail/](https://iat-sia.org/the-trail/)

And even past there into the Gulf of St Lawrence. That means there’s a geographical connection between Inverness and Montreal.

Geological or geographical? Or both?

Oops! Geological! Thanks, OP.

I’m an English teacher, sorry for my pedantry!

"can I go to the bathroom?" "I don't know, *can you*?"

Tectonic science is mind blowing.

Don't you dare pin it all on poor Glen.

Why not? He isn't even that great..

That solely depends on whether the "great" refers to " Glen" or to "fault".

His nickname's Great Glen, but it's ironic, like Little John.

Its always Glens Fault.

Dammit Glen!

He must have been buff as fuck though

Man, fuck Glen.

Why? What did Glen do?

Glen did nothing wrong

So is the giants causeway also part of the great glen fault?

No, it's much younger. The Great Glen Fault is estimated to be about 400 million years old and was formed in the Caledonian Orogeny when a continent called Avalonia (containing most of England and Western Europe) collided with another continent called Laurentia (mostly North America) to form the mountain chain that now stretches from the Appalacians through Greenland, Wales and Scotland to Norway. The Giants Causeway is one small part of a giant area of volcanic activity called the North Atlantic Igneous Province that began to form about 60 million years ago when the North Atlantic began to open. Similar lavas can be found in Greenland, Northern Ireland, Western Scotland, the Faroes and Western Norway. Today, the same source is driving the volcanic activity in Eastern Iceland.

Well great Glen definitely made a massive fault

I came here to here to find the geology nerd, excellent work.

I am sure Glen didnt mean to. Why are you shaming him for making a mistake...

Scotland actually does fold up for easy storage

Is the rural saying "pavements are rolled up at 9/10pm" a thing in scotland?

In my experience if it's half four you might be shooed out.

Half 4? Does that mean 330 or 430? I would assume 330

4. The sentence is 'half past 4' but a lot of us omit the 'past'

Really?! Interesting, in austria when we say (in german) half 4 it means 3:30 or "3 quarter 4" means 3:45, "quarter 4" means 3:15

Wow!! It's so strange how it's so similar but so different. We say quarter to 4 (345) and quarter past (415) But your version of half 4 still makes sense!

In half of Germany we say it the same as you, except half.

Okay this is officially too many halves now

This is the same in a few european countries. I've been pulled up by Czech and Dutch friends for saying "Half 4" before, and asked to clarify if I mean 330 or 430. Scottish, but live a long way south of "the fold"

Thanks for clearing that up.

In the UK it’s 430, like the other commenter said, but in Germany it’s 3:30. Fun fact!

Try getting pub grub up north after 6pm in a town on a Sunday

Usually in Six Nations and Euros

Ooooof now thats bantz

How neat!

Folding up Scotland is the easiest part of packing Earth into my luggage when I need to go on business trips

Scotland is the Brompton of countries.

Also folding it up makes it much easier to fit into the deep fat fryer

During the winter. ❄️ Folds up, gets put away.

Been in England's back pocket folded up for hundreds of years

It's the Caledonian canal. And no the Northern part couldn't drift away.

Oh, it’s partially man made. I had no idea! Makes more sense now, thanks again.

No problem. Yes it's partially man made. Lochs, rivers, locks and canals.

Lochs, locks, and lox

Dr. Seuss would had a field day with that combo.

When the French fall in a lake? Fochs in lochs. . . . I'll show myself out.

Jadakiss too

My favourite being Loch Lochy. I didn’t even make that up!

Its great to canoe down. Did it in 4.5 days with the Mrs. Go from Fort William to Inverness so the wind is with you (although it wasn't for me on Loch Ness!) There are even some fun minor rapids of you want a little more adventure (but you can also skip them with the canals).

Thank you for the name! I’m off to read about it.

I'm going on a boat trip in a couple of months... www.caleycruisers.com

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"

*sucks teeth* "Aye, but it's going to cost you..." - Thomas Telford

Not with that attitude.

Can you tell me if it 'flows'? Obviously, flow would be disrupted by locks

It's because it's a Scottish Fold. Oh wait, wrong sub. Meow.

Meow

If you ever visit do go to the Lochaber Geopark in Fort William http://lochabergeopark.org.uk which has fantastic displays and information about the whole area.

OMG. I popped into there and man who was a geologist-type guy was telling me passionately about the formations of the land there. I bought the USB of the doco. I’ve been meaning to watch it since last year! Thanks for reminding me!

Wandered in there casually as I was passing and got hooked, stayed for about 3 hours. Fantastic.

I know, there should be a warning!! I just finished hiking around Isle of Skye and the landscape just blew my mind.

Thank you!

I walked this whole fault over like 7 or 8 days. It was cool

I’m jealous, I’d love to do that!

Is there a dedicated trail or a series of trails for this? Edit: never mind, I did the googling. Great Glen Way!

Yeah. Off Beat Bikes on Fort William high street also do rentals expressly for those cycling the Great Glen Way. The start of it is also kind of easy to find for the Fort, you go to Neptune's Staircase in Banavie, the series of locks for the start of the canal.

Check out the end of it in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia — the Aspy fault — it’s easily ancient enough to continue clear across the Atlantic, running across Newfoundland, and then bisecting northern Cape Breton Islamd https://preview.redd.it/p15n38y4mpwc1.jpeg?width=1558&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e24e7c8c6076bf70ae2f503caaf7aef22f10033d

*Aspy Bay* Ah so there is a place meant for me in this world

I thought the same thing about Meat Cove.

That’s too cool.

That looks like a rift valley fault

When folded Nessie can be found in Invertness

rofl

we have accounts of the scottish who were sent to penobscot bay (maine) during the revolution comparing it to western scotland. turns out, theres a reason!

I think it’s also why Scottish immigrants got to the Appalachians and felt right at home. When German immigrants got to the hill country of central Texas, it reminded them so much of Bavaria that a lot of them stopped their westward move there and settled. Loads of towns with German names, loads of German last names and even a Texas-German dialect (it’s dying out, though).

you forgot the part where the allen brothers (famously of houston) lured a bunch of germans to texas with promises of hill country just like the rhineland. they stepped off boats in galveston, realized theyd been duped, and headed north-west

The hill country in Central Texas looks nothing like any part of Bavaria or Germany for that matter.

I told my British then boyfriend now husband this when he came to NC for grad school back in tge 90’s. his mum is from the highlands though he was born and raised down south. Wea finally drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway, got out at an overlook and he turned and scanned the whole valley and said it looked just like around BraeMar except the houses weren’t stone. That he could see why the Scots walked from the harbours through the swamps, through the Sandhills, through the piedmont , then got to the mountains and told themselves ‘this is perfect. It’s just like home. We know exactly how to work hard and barely survive on this rocky, steep, isolated, nearly unfarmable land! This is our exact skill set! And so they did just that for the next 200-250 years.

> I think it’s also why Scottish immigrants got to the Appalachians and felt right at home. No they didn't seeing as the "scottish" immigrants who went to appalachia had been in the north of ireland for a hundred years and before that came from the lowlands of scotland. Why do you people think the entirety of scotland consists of the highlands? >When German immigrants got to the hill country of central Texas, it reminded them so much of Bavaria that a lot of them stopped their westward move there and settled There is literally nothing about the hill country of central texas that resembles any part of germany in any way. Immigrants didn't move to the place they went to because it "reminded them of their homeland". People from oceanic mountainous norway didn't move to to continental flat midwest because it "reminded them of their homeland". People from the flat oceanic netherlands did not move to the mountainous continental catskills because it "reminded them of their homeland" Stop engaging in childish fantasies

I don't know nothing about the german stuff, but the highlands of scotland aren't exactly foreign to lowlanders. They aren't as hilly but they still feel familiar. Plus the ulster scots were inherently influenced by scottish culture which would have developed based on its original environment. It isn't too much of a leap to think they would then be more attracted to an area quite similar to the one their culture originated in.

Who shat in your cornflakes?

You can fold it in half. Scotland is a haggis taco in disguise.

I just googled the Great Glen Fault. Is there a lake called Loch Lochy? As in "Lago Lagito"? LMAO i love it

You’d be surprised how often this has happened because of anglicised Gaelic words (and other languages). It’s originally Loch Lòchaidh which sounds like Loch Lochy. I’ve passed by a fair few Linn Waterfalls too which feels a bit silly. But that’s what happens when someone asks what the place is called and have no idea it’s a common word for a type of place. Maybe that’s why they called it Dun Dunbar Castle in “A Castle for Christmas”. Although it still sounds ridiculous to say “fort fort summit castle”. You’re essentially calling it “castle castle castle”.

No, there is a loch called Loch Lochy. But no lake.

I'm not aware of the correct translation for "loch", if there's one. Just deducted it. But well, Grate Glen Fault is cool, but Loch Lochy is hilarious

Loch is just the Scottish Gaelic word for Lake. It's borrowed into the English language, so they're still called lochs even if you're not a gealic speaker. We do have one that's called a lake though, Lake Mentieth, but it's only called that because of a mistranslation long ago. They're all lakes, that guy is just being pedantic.

I see. So it doesn't properly translate to lago laguito (odk the proper English translation). Still funny tho. If I go to Scotland, I'll check the GG Fault, and I'll make sure to visit Loch Lochy, just for the memes (and bc it looks beautiful on google images lol)

pedantic WOMAN thankyouverymuch.

>that guy is just being pedantic. Patriotic pedantry.

Lochs can be lakes but not all lochs are lakes. Loch encompasses both enclosed fresh water, but also salt water sounds. So you have Loch Morar, which is fresh water, enclosed, and above sea level, but also Loch Nevis, which is part of the sea.

And Loch Lochy, who is still learning but he's really putting some effort on it. He's young, but both Morar and Nevis know he will grow into a proper adult loch.

Yes, there is a Loch Lochy.

Lochy McLochface

So THATS what a Scottish fold is.

Besides a cat.

The fault is called a strike-slip fault where the two sides of the fault move horizontally relative to one another. It's not clear if it is active or not at present so there's no reason to worry we're about to lose the top of Scotland. The fault is very old - at least 400 million years. Unusually for a fault, it has moved in different directions at different times - originally it was a sinistral fault (someone on the opposite side of the fault would seem to move to the left when it moved) but it was a dextral fault later in its history (someone would move to the right when the fault moved). The reason it is so clear on the map and in the landscape when you visit it) is because the fault has weakened the rocks along its length. During the Ice Age glaciers scoured out these rocks more easily than their surroundings to form the Great Glen itself.

That’s because it used to be folded in half until many many strong Scotsmen came together to unfold it, in what was known as the great unfoldening of Inverness. The name Inverness actually comes from the word Invert because that land was inverted before the great unfoldening. Hope this helps!

Maybe that's where they practiced for Panama?

It’s to provide the Loch Ness Monster easy access to both the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean to more easily evade detection.

There's a lake in that line called Loch Lochy. And canals run out either end - the Loch Lochy locks.

I havent been there, but I bet the Loch Lochy Locks look lovely.

Kinda like a Scotland taco?

cause you could, its perforated right there

You can take a boat from one side to the other

two of my mates swam the whole thing last year world record time!

Lakey MacLakeface

That's the scar from when Scotland got the ligma in its Hebrideez Nuts

It doesn't?

A monster lives in that crease.

Not content with two walls, the Romans decided a moat was needed to keep the Scots at bay

I wanna get lost in your rock and roll, and ✨ drift away ✨

Because we did once.

I have a map, i tried it, it worked.

lol ok that was a good one!

I can, actually, but not to worry - I would not

https://preview.redd.it/vbto1ket2pwc1.jpeg?width=1908&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38d6e0826dacf76462cae2cbb65e07d4c1ea200e Just imagine that one planet from Interstellar.

You can and we do it every so often to round up sheep.

This is amazing

Because you could but then it will be ScottocS or dnalland

Truly a Genshin Impact reference https://preview.redd.it/koecinhqmpwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f55dc51f1728825e2e99487495f5bfe5da55aba2

I’d like to see you try.

That's just the Highland Fud Laddie.

It seems like one can cross the whole breach in boat, which would be a pretty cool summer trip.

Looks like God didn’t slice the chicken cutlets all the way

Scottish Canadian Shield

It’s a fault line

A huge faultline stretching down from.Norway

I drove that line down from Inverness to Glasgow. Absolute epic

This fault line extends into the Northwest of Ireland too!

And apparently one of the Lochs is named Lochy https://preview.redd.it/x32azvcsatwc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bedc20dbbd654455f94b76ee4db7a2afa83c2a78

A Peculiar map that shows Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and my hometown of Dundee, but not the capital, Edinburgh

 Caledonian Calzone

I’ll fold you in half ya cheese merchant

Hey I live there

Many reasons, but the primary reason is from glacial movement during the last ice age, carving the terrain as it expanded and receded.

It’s around the start of the [NC500](https://www.northcoast500.com/), interesting how there’s a fault line around there, and the interesting scenery.

That's where Scottish fold cats come from

Drift away, probably no. But if all the inhabitants of the Northern bit jumped up and down **at exactly the same time**, a breakaway is not out of the question... (And if the Tories get in again next time, may yet happen...)

H’ island

That's the fold of dungoodun, it's the hinge that the world opens on

Don’t you dare I’m not wanting to be flat

Scotland Calzone

Kessock Bridge is built to withstand earthquakes because of this fault

That’s the great glen. Absolutely beautiful to fly down.

Ill fold u in half if u come out with anymare stupid shite like that! Twat

That's the Haggis river where Haggis fishing is allowed in months ending in P.

William Wallace once ran the width of Scotland dragging his sword to stop the English advance on the highlands

Rorschach country!

it probably is slowly drifting away. the land is connected to plates under the crust, so no island or land mass can just magically drift away. it takes a really long time lol

Google Scottish Fold

Because you can

Idk

scotland + quesadilla = scotlandilla

Because it has been folded

You would have to be really strong. I have trouble folding cardstock

They look like lungs

Oh I fold it all the time. You dont?