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Loch Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Obha; also sometimes anglicised as Lochawe, Lochaw, or Lochow) is a large body of freshwater in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. It has also given its name to a village on its banks, variously known as Loch Awe or Lochawe. There are islands within the loch such as Innis Chonnell and Inishail.
This loch lies at 33 metres (108 ft) above sea level, is over 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long and is at the head of the Grimersta system. Loch Langavat Gaelic/Norse: Long lake Harris: Loch Leathan Gaelic: Broad Loch Skye This loch to the east of Portree, which includes Loch Fada, is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long. Loch Mealt: Skye
Loch Awe (1 C, 5 P) Loch Lomond (2 C, 31 P) R. Reservoirs in Argyll and Bute (32 P) Pages in category "Lochs of Argyll and Bute" The following 47 pages are in this ...
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Construction of the tailrace into Loch Awe was particularly difficult, due to the steep slope of the banks of the loch, and the fact that the rock was covered with gravel and boulders. The outfall works were quite extensive, due in part to the need for them to include fine mesh filters, to prevent salmon smolts from entering the tunnel. [22]
The River Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Abha) is a short river in Argyll and Bute, Southwest Highlands of Scotland by which the freshwater Loch Awe empties into Loch Etive, a sea loch. The river flows from a barrage which stretches across the end of a deep arm of the loch which protrudes northwestward through the Pass of Brander from the ...
Loch Morar is the deepest of the UK's lakes and Loch Awe the longest. Murray and Pullar (1910) note that the mean depth of Loch Ness is 57.4% of the maximum depth – higher than in any other large deep loch in Scotland. [2] The deepest lake in England is Wast Water which descends to 76 metres (249 ft).
Loch Awe is a small loch, located 4 miles south of Loch Assynt and next to the village of Ledmore, within the Assynt area of Sutherland, Scotland. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The loch is located in an area along with neighbouring Coigach , as the Assynt-Coigach National Scenic Area , [ 4 ] one of 40 such areas in Scotland.