A cirque — a steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion.
From Scottish Gaelic 'coire' (cauldron/kettle). Highland Scots saw these glacier-carved bowls in the mountains and called them 'cauldrons' — giant stone kettles carved by ice.
Scottish highlanders looked at these huge bowl-shaped hollows carved by glaciers and called them CAULDRONS! Imagine a giant making soup in a mountain! Geology + Scottish imagination = the best place names! ðŸ”ï¸ðŸ²
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