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[2] [3] The volume of water in Loch Ness is nearly double that in all the lakes of England and Wales combined. [1] Murray and Pullar also note that the mean depth of Loch Ness is 57.4% of the maximum depth – higher than in any other large deep loch, with Loch Avich coming closest at 52.4%. [ 4 ]
After the end of the last ice age, there was a brief return to full glacial conditions between 12,700 and 11,500 years ago; a phase known throughout Britain as the Loch Lomond Stadial. An ice cap was re-established over the West Highlands and glaciers moved down the major valleys within the national park.
A 2005 poll of Radio Times readers voted Loch Lomond as the sixth greatest natural wonder in Britain. [12] The Trossachs are an area of wooded hills, glens and lochs that lie to the east of Loch Lomond. The name was originally applied only to a small woodland glen that lies at the centre of the area, but is now generally applied to the wider ...
Ness is the protagonist of EarthBound, the second game in the three-part Mother series. He was created by Shigesato Itoi, the creator of the Mother series, who intended the game to have real characters whom players would recognize in the people around them. [2]
NASA Landsat image of Lough Neagh Loch Lomond in winter Loch Ness With Urquhart Castle in the foreground The islands of Loch Maree This table includes the ten largest fresh water bodies by area. Lough Neagh is the largest water body in the UK by this measure, although Loch Ness is the largest by volume and contains nearly double the amount of ...
Loch Lomond (like Loch Ness) is often used as a shorthand for all things Scottish, an image partly reinforced by the self-titled song. An archetype is the Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon . The opening lyrics of the song " Almost Like Being in Love " are: "Maybe the sun gave me the power/For I could swim Loch Lomond and be home in half an ...
At 56 km 2 (22 sq mi), Loch Ness is the second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond [citation needed], but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in Great Britain [citation needed]. Its deepest point is 230 metres (126 fathoms; 755 feet), making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar [citation ...
Loch Lomond, a freshwater loch, often considered the boundary between the lowlands and Highlands [113] The Central Lowlands is a rift valley mainly comprising Paleozoic formations. Many of these sediments have economic significance for it is here that the coal and iron-bearing rocks that fuelled Scotland's industrial revolution are found.