Tangy hole

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Tangy hole
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Tangy Loch with Tangy Loch Windfarm in the background
Geographical location Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Drain Tangy Burn → Scottish Sea
Data
Coordinates 55 ° 29 '29 "  N , 5 ° 39' 6"  W Coordinates: 55 ° 29 '29 "  N , 5 ° 39' 6"  W.
Tangy Loch (Scotland)
Tangy hole
Altitude above sea level 134  m
surface 0.19 km²dep1
length 700 mdep1
width 280 mdep1
Middle deep 1.4 m
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Tangy Loch is a Scottish freshwater lake . It is located on the Kintyre Peninsula in the Argyll and Bute Council Area about 8 kilometers northwest of Campbeltown .

Tangy Loch is around 700 m long and on average around 280 m wide. With an average depth of only 1.4 meters, it is extremely shallow compared to many other Scottish lochs. The banks of Tangy Loch are completely uninhabited and appear entirely as grassland. The lake is an important overwintering Greenland white-fronted goose and in 1989 because of the particularly rich vegetation with water plants to Site Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) explained. About in the middle of the lake is a crannóg - an artificial island, as they are more common in Scotland and Ireland .

Tangy Loch is a fishing area in which brown trout in particular can be caught.

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