Rùm rest of the British Isles and Scotland, Rùm features a strongly maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. There is a MetOffice weather station at Kinloch providing long term climate observations. The main range of hills on Rùm are the Cuillin, usually referred to as the "Rùm Cuillin", in order to distinguish them from the Cuillin of Skye. They are rocky peaks of gabbro, forming the Rum layered intrusion. Geologically, Rùm is the core of a deeply eroded volcano that was active in the Paleogene era some 60 million years ago, and which developed on a pre-existing structure of
Hills in the Puget Lowland contain several peaks over high, including the Fidalgo Island high point, Mount Erie. Mason County's Olympic Mountains foothills are called the Satsop Hills. Hills in the Puget Lowland Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between and rarely more than above sea level. Hills are often notable geologically and for social reasons, such as the seven hills of Seattle. The Puget Lowland lies between the Cascades and Olympic Mountains and once contained a plateau of glacial till not usually more than above sea level. The plateau, "the