Loch Shin
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| Geographical location | Northern Highlands, Highland , Scotland | |
| Drain | Shin | |
| Places on the shore | Lairg | |
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| Coordinates | 58 ° 6 ′ N , 4 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| length | 27 km | |
| Maximum depth | 49.3 m | |
| Middle deep | 15.5 m | |
The Loch Shin ( Gäl. Hole SIN ) is a lake in the remote northern Highlands in Scotland . It is 27 km long and an average of one kilometer wide, the widest point is just under two kilometers. According to measurements in 1902, the greatest depth of the lake at that time was 162 feet (about 49 m). However, a dam project in the 1950s raised the water level by around ten meters. Loch Shin is the largest lake in Sutherland .
The lake is very rich in fish and in autumn thousands of salmon migrate up the hole. South of the lake they have in Shin doing the Falls of Shin overcome. The main town on the lake shore is Lairg , but there are some hamlets around the lake that rarely consist of more than five houses. The people today live mainly from agriculture and forestry , partly also from fishing . So far, tourism has hardly found its way into the area, both due to the remoteness and the fact that most tourists prefer the roads of the Scottish west coast and then drive back along the east coast.
The area around Loch Shin is characterized by moors . There are large forests in the northeast , otherwise Loch Shin is surrounded by heather and, less often, by fields. Nine castle ruins stand around the lake and on the islands in the loch, as well as some abandoned houses of the crofters ( small farmers ).
Carbisdale Castle is located between Loch Shin and the Dornoch Firth .
Loch Shin is one of the main locations of Wolfgang Hohlbein's novel series The Witcher of Salem in the book The Witch of Salem .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sir John Murrand and Laurence Pullar: Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water hole of Scotland, 1897-1909: Loch Shin ( Lower Section , Upper Section ) , Royal Geographical Society, London 1908