Strait of Corryvreckan
| Strait of Corryvreckan | ||
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| Connects waters | Jurassic Sound | |
| with water | Sea of the Hebrides ( Scottish Sea ) | |
| Separates land mass | law | |
| of land mass | Scarba | |
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| Geographical location | 56 ° 9 '15 " N , 5 ° 42' 50" W | |
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| Smallest width | 1 km | |
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The Strait of Corryvreckan , also Gulf of Corryvreckan , from Gaelic Coire Bhreacain , is a strait in Scotland . It runs north of the Hebridean island of Jura and separates it from the neighboring island of Scarba . The name roughly means the basin of the spotted sea . The whiskey distillery Ardbeg publishes a whiskey bottling called Corryvreckan .
The Strait of Corryvreckan runs with a length of a few kilometers in an east-west direction and, together with the Luing Sound, represents one of the two main outflows of the Jurassic Sound to the north. It is relatively narrow and at its narrowest point has a width of about a kilometer up.
Corryvreckan swirl
The Corryvreckan strudel is located in the Strait of Corryvreckan and is one of the strongest whirlpools in the world after the Moskenstraumen and Saltstraumen whirlpools between the Norwegian Lofoten and the Old Sow in Canada . The formation of this vortex is based on the topographical conditions. When the tide sets in, water flows from the south through the Jura Sound, where it can only flow away through a few straits in the north. The resulting high water pressure causes a strong current to the west of about eight knots (about 14.5 km / h) in the Strait of Corryvreckan . From the bottom of the strait, about 200 m deep, a pyramid-shaped rock grows to about 28 m below the sea surface. The rapid current on both sides around and above this rock causes the vortex to form. This causes loud noises that can be easily heard for miles. They are best heard about an hour after low tide. If the masses of water flowing westward at low tide are countered by a strong westerly wind, waves up to five meters high pile up. This natural spectacle is known as the Great Race . When the tide starts, the currents run in the opposite direction.
Individual evidence
- ^ List of Gaelic expressions
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ a b The advances in physics. Vol. 20, 1864, p. 851 .
- ↑ Online presence of the Ardbeg distillery
- ^ A b Neil Wilson, Alan Murphy: Scotland. 5th edition. Lonely Planet, Footscray 2008, ISBN 978-1-74104-725-7 , p. 294.
- ^ Annette Kossow: Scotland. 8th, completely revised and redesigned edition. Iwanowski's Reisebuchverlag, Dormagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-933041-45-6 , p. 323.
