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Fell
High and barren landscape feature / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fells" redirects here. For the surname, see Fells (surname).
For other uses, see Fell (disambiguation).
A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain"[1]) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of Man, parts of northern England, and Scotland.
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