Maiden Pap, Caithness

{{Short description|Steep hill in Caithness, Scotland}}

{{For|other similarly named mountains|Maiden Paps (disambiguation){{!}}Maiden Paps}}

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Maiden Pap

| photo = Maiden Pap - geograph.org.uk - 218893.jpg

| photo_caption = Maiden Pap

| elevation_m = 484

| elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/mountaindetails.php?qu=S&rf=1157|title = Maiden Pap|publisher=hillbagging.co.uk|accessdate = 8 June 2019}}

| prominence_m = 169

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| listing =Marilyn, Breast-shaped hills

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| location = Caithness, Scotland

| range = Northwest Highlands

| coordinates =

| grid_ref_UK = ND048293

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| first_ascent = Unknown

| easiest_route = From Braemore

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The Maiden Pap is a hill located in Caithness, Scotland. It is an inselberg, formed of Devonian conglomerates, rising steeply out of the surrounding plain and visible from as far away as Hoy and the Moray Firth.{{cite web |title=Inselberg |url=http://www.landforms.eu/Caithness/inselberg.htm |website=Lanforms.eu |accessdate=11 June 2019}} The Pap is so named because its shape resembles that of a human breast.{{cite web | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/46227281.html?dids=46227281:46227281&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+08%2C+1999&author=Rennie+McOwan&pub=The+Herald&desc=Tips+for+the+top&pqatl=google | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130201095838/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/46227281.html?dids=46227281:46227281&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+08,+1999&author=Rennie+McOwan&pub=The+Herald&desc=Tips+for+the+top&pqatl=google | url-status = dead | archive-date = 1 February 2013 | title = Tips for the top | accessdate = 2011-06-30 | last = McOwan | first = Rennie | date = Nov 8, 1999 | publisher = The Herald (Glasgow) (UK)}}{{cite book | last1 = Long | first1 = George | title = The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 11 and 12 | work = Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Know | year = 1838 | publisher = Nabu Press | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4cdPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Maiden+Paps%22+Caithness&pg=PA402 | accessdate = 2011-06-30 | isbn = 978-1-146-89575-0}}