Editing Ben Nevis (section)

==In popular culture==
The [[Ben Nevis Distillery]] is a [[single malt Scotch|single malt whisky]] distillery at the foot of the mountain, near Victoria Bridge to the north of Fort William. Founded in 1825 by John McDonald (known as "Long John"), it is one of the oldest licensed distilleries in Scotland,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bennevisdistillery.com/|title=Ben Nevis Distillery|access-date=25 November 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061125072703/http://www.bennevisdistillery.com/| archive-date= 25 November 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/smws/78.html|title=Ben Nevis|publisher=Edinburgh Malt Whisky Tour|access-date=25 November 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061010212903/http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/smws/78.html| archive-date= 10 October 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref> and is a popular visitor attraction in Fort William. The water used to make the whisky comes from the {{lang|gd|italic=no|Allt a' Mhuilinn}}, the stream that flows from Ben Nevis's northern corrie.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/ben_nevis.htm|title=Ben Nevis Distillery|publisher=Scotchwhisky.net|access-date=25 November 2006| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061229171048/http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/ben_nevis.htm| archive-date= 29 December 2006 | url-status= live}}</ref> "Ben Nevis" 80/‒ organic [[ale]] is, by contrast, brewed in [[Bridge of Allan]] near [[Stirling]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=2403|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022175602/http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=2403|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2007|title=Ben Nevis ale|access-date=11 December 2006}}</ref>

''Ben Nevis'' was the name of a [[White Star Line]] [[packet ship]] which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the [[Wends of Texas]].<ref name='wends'>{{cite web |url=http://www.texaswendish.org/2010/01/who-are-the-wends/ |title=Texas Wendish Heritage Society: Brief History |last=Lammert |first=Ron |publisher=Texas Wendish Heritage Society  |date=January 2010 }}</ref> At least another eight vessels have carried the name since then.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/|title=Miramar Ship Index|access-date=18 March 2016}}</ref>

A mountain in [[Svalbard]] is also named [[Ben Nevis (Svalbard)|Ben Nevis]], after the Scottish peak. It is {{convert|922|m|ft|abbr=off}} high and is south of the head of [[Raudfjorden]], Albert I Land, in the northwestern part of the island of [[Spitsbergen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stadnamn.npolar.no/stadnamn/Ben%20Nevis?lang=en |title=Place names in Norwegian polar areas |access-date=11 March 2009 |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute }}</ref> [[Hung Fa Chai]], a {{convert|489|m|ft|abbr=off|adj=on}} hill in Northeast [[New Territories]] of [[Hong Kong]] was given the name Ben Nevis by British surveyors in 1901.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pang |first1=Diana |title=Around the world in a day with Hong Kong's street names |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2023/08/27/foreign-influence-part-3-around-the-world-in-a-day-with-hong-kongs-street-names/ |work=Hong Kong Free Press |access-date=5 November 2024 |date=27 August 2023}}</ref>

[[Wee Ben Nevis]] was a character appearing in ''[[The Beano]]'' comic for a few years from 1974, drawn by [[Vic Neill]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Iain |title=The History of the Beano |date=21 April 2022 |publisher=White Owl |isbn=978-1-5267-7786-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G33GEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22wee+ben+nevis%22&pg=PT100 |access-date=5 November 2024 |language=en |via=Google books}}</ref> in a feature described by [[Auberon Waugh]] as having "strong undertones of Scottish Nationalism by its untrue suggestion that Scotsmen have superhuman strength despite their diminutive stature".<ref name="cook">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=William |title=Kiss Me, Chudleigh: The World according to Auberon Waugh |date=14 October 2010 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |isbn=978-1-4447-1151-6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yMnos35Wy9YC&dq=%22wee+ben+nevis%22&pg=PT43 |access-date=5 November 2024 |language=en |chapter=17 June 1976 |via=Google books}}</ref>