Tour Scotland Photograph Cruise Boat Fort Augustus Loch Ness

Tour Scotland photograph of a cruise boat returning to Fort Augustus from Loch Ness, Scotland. Loch Ness is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for approximately 23 miles South West of Inverness. Its surface is 52 feet above sea level. Loch Ness is best known for alleged sightings of the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster, also known affectionately as " Nessie ". Loch Ness is connected at the southern end by the River Oich and a section of the Caledonian Canal to Loch Oich. At the northern end there is the Bona Narrows which opens out into Loch Dochfour, which feeds the River Ness and a further section of canal to Inverness. Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area at 22 square miles after Loch Lomond, but due to its great depth, it is the largest by volume in the British Isles. Its deepest point is 755 feet making it the second deepest loch in Scotland after Loch Morar. A recent survey discovered a crevice that pushes the depth to 889 feet. It contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, and is the largest body of water on the Great Glen Fault, which runs from Inverness in the north to Fort William in the South.



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