Loch Linnhe
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| Waters | Firth of Lorn | |
| Land mass | Great Britain (island) | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 42 ′ N , 5 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| length | approx. 50 km | |
| Tributaries | River Lochy | |
Loch Linnhe ([ lɒx ˈlɪni ], Scottish Gaelic : An Linne Dhubh (the black pond, pool), originally known as Loch Abar (confluence sea bay)) is a sea bay ( sea loch to distinguish from loch for inland sea ) in the highlands near the West coast of Scotland .
Loch Linnhe is approximately 50 kilometers long and has a widely varying, increasingly tapering width. At its southwest end it opens into the Firth of Lorn . Linnhe hole runs along the line of the Great Glen Fault ( Großtalverwerfung ), which runs through the Highlands, and is the only Seebucht along these warp. The town of Fort William is at its northeastern end, where the Lochy River flows into. To the west of Fort William, Loch Linnhe merges into Loch Eil at the narrow point The Narrows . At Ballachulish , the Loch Leven branches off as a tributary from the Linnhe in an easterly direction and leads for almost 20 km to Kinlochleven . The Ballachulish Bridge has spanned the narrowness of the two lochs since 1975 and the A82 is continuously passable to Fort William and Inverness . On the border to Loch Laich, a bulge on the south east edge of Loch Linnhe, the picturesque Castle Stalker stands on a small tidal island .
The Loch Linnhe is presumably identical to the Longos river that appears at Ptolemy .
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- ↑ Alex. MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language - Section 0
- ^ Ptolemy's geography 2.3