Loch Shiel
Loch Shiel is a freshwater loch situated 20 kilometres west of Fort William in the Highland council area of Scotland. At 28 kilometres long it is the 4th longest loch in Scotland, and is the longest to have retained a natural outflow without any regulation of its water level, being 120 m deep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: simon stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ardnamurchan.
Ardnamurchan
Photo: Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ardnamurchan Peninsula is in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands. It's the most westerly and remote part of mainland Britain, accessed only by a long, winding single-track lane.
Loch Shiel
- Type: Lake
- Description: freshwater loch in Ardnamurchan, West Highlands of Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Shiel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Loch Shiel” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shiel aintzira”
- Cebuano: “Loch Shiel”
- Chinese: “希爾湖”
- Chuvash: “Лох-Шил”
- Czech: “Loch Seile”
- Czech: “Loch Shiel”
- Dutch: “Loch Shiel”
- French: “Loch Seile”
- French: “Loch Sheil”
- French: “loch Shiel”
- French: “Loch Shiel”
- German: “Loch Shiel”
- Irish: “Loch Seile”
- Italian: “Loch Shiel”
- Japanese: “シール湖”
- Japanese: “シエイ湖”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Shiel”
- Persian: “دریاچه شیل”
- Polish: “Loch Shiel”
- Russian: “Лох-Шил”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Seile”
- Spanish: “Lago Shiel”
- Swedish: “Loch Shiel”
- Ukrainian: “Лох-Шил”
- Venetian: “Loch Shiel”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loch Shiel”. Photo: simon stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.