Loch Maree
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| Geographical location | Highland , Scotland | |
| Drain | River Ewe → Loch Ewe | |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 41 ′ N , 5 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 6 m ASL | |
| surface | 27.98 km² | |
| length | 20 km | |
| width | 3.5 km | |
| volume | 1.069 km³ | |
| scope | 96 km | |
| Maximum depth | 111.9 m | |
| Middle deep | 38.2 m | |
| Catchment area | 440.11 km² | |
Loch Maree is a freshwater lake in Wester Ross , in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland . The lake is located in the Council Area Highland and is the fourth largest lake in Scotland with an area of 28 km².
Loch Maree has the typical elongated shape of a lake created by glaciers in the Ice Age . It is about 20 km long but less than four kilometers wide. There are 25 smaller and five larger islands covered by forest on the lake . One of them is Maree Island , which has the remains of a chapel , a coin tree , a sacred spring and a cemetery . The Hermitage of Saint Maol Rubha is said to have been here, who founded the Applecross Monastery in 672 . The water of the lake is said to have healing powers. Loch Maree is dominated in the southeast by the wide rock mass of the 981 m high Slioch .
Like Loch Ness , this lake also has its own monster called Muc-sheilch . Loch Maree is considered one of the most beautiful lakes in the Highlands . Due to the remoteness, there is little tourism there . The A832 runs along the south bank .
Another lake in the Fiordland National Park in New Zealand bears the name Loch Maree , which is also very isolated on the Dusky Track .
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supporting documents
- ^ A b c d e f g Center for Ecology & Hydrology: Loch Maree. (No longer available online.) NERC , 2015, archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 24, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Measurement on OpenStreetMap
