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Lochan a' Garbh Coire is a small freshwater loch located below the summit of Ben Alder in the Highlands of Scotland. At over 1,120 m (3,670 ft) above sea level, it is among the highest named bodies of water in the British Isles. [1] [2] [3]
Loch Ness is an elongated freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands southwest of Inverness, extending for approximately 37 kilometres (23 miles) and flowing from southwest to northeast. At 56 km 2 (22 sq mi), it is the second-largest Scottish loch by surface area after Loch Lomond , but due to its great depth it is the largest by volume in the ...
Loch Clair (Loch of the level place) is a small remote shallow low-altitude freshwater loch, located within the Coulin Forest, some three miles to the south-west of Kinlochewe in Wester Ross. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Loch Clair is the lower of two lochs in the same valley and is aligned on a southeast-northwest bearing.
The loch is located at an elevation of 316 metres (1,037 ft) [2] about 2 miles (3.2 km) NE of Loch Morlich. Its length is 460 metres (1,510 ft). [1] It lies at the foot of the Eastern flanks of the Greag Nan Gall (622 m). [5] The lake is considered by geologists a good example of a morainic tarn. [6]
Loch Maree (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ma-ruibhe) [7] is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. At 21.7 km (13.46 mi) long [1] and with a maximum width of four kilometres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi), it is the fourth-largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness. Its surface area is 28.7 km 2 (11.08 sq mi). [2]
Loch Loyal is a freshwater Scottish loch, located near Lairg in Sutherland, in the northern Highlands. Loch loyal ranges about four miles (6.4 km) long by about one half (0.8 km) wide, and drops to a depth of two hundred feet (61 m). The Loch flows north through Loch Craggie and Loch Slaim into the River Borgie. Loch Loyal is surrounded by ...
Within the ridge is small remote Loch Garbhaig that lies below the northern cliffs of Slioch. A vast number of lochs and lochans surround Lochan Fada. To the north-west lies the largest at Fionn Loch. The area directly north of the loch contains a large number of very small lochans grouped around the mountain Ruadh Stac Mor at
Loch Morar (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Mòrair) is a freshwater loch in the Rough Bounds of Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. [2] It is the fifth-largest loch by surface area in Scotland, at 26.7 km 2 (10.3 sq mi), and the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles with a maximum depth of 310 m (1,017 ft). The loch was created by glacial action around ...