Loch Maree
Loch Maree is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. At 21.7 km long and with a maximum width of four kilometres, it is the fourth-largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows to the River Ewe
- Also known as: “Lake Maree”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garbh Eilean and Eilean Sùbhainn.
Garbh Eilean
Island
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Garbh Eilean is a forested island in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. Garbh Eilean lies between Eilean Sùbhainn and Eilean Ruairidh Mòr. The islands are among the least disturbed in Britain.
Eilean Sùbhainn
Island
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Eilean Sùbhainn is the largest of several small islands in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. It is the second largest freshwater island in Scotland after Inchmurrin.
Eilean Ruairidh Mòr
Island
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Eilean Ruairidh Mòr is a forested island in Loch Maree, Wester Ross, Scotland. Its name was formerly anglicised as "Ellan-Rorymore". The island is owned by Forestry and Land Scotland, as is the Slattadale Forest on the southern shore of Loch Maree.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poolewe.
Poolewe
Village
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Poolewe is a small village in Wester Ross in the North West Highlands of Scotland, about 75 miles northwest of Inverness, by Loch Ewe. The River Ewe, one of the shortest in Scotland, joins the sea less than one mile from Inverewe Garden, renowned for its subtropical plants. Poolewe is situated 6 miles northwest of Loch Maree.
Loch Maree
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Loch Maree” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Maree aintzira”
- Breton: “Loch Ma-ruibhe”
- Catalan: “loch Maree”
- Catalan: “Loch Maree”
- Cebuano: “Loch Maree”
- Chinese: “馬里湖”
- Chuvash: “Лох-Мари”
- Czech: “Loch Maree”
- Dutch: “Loch Maree”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لوتش مارى”
- Esperanto: “Maree”
- French: “loch Maree”
- French: “Loch Maree”
- German: “Loch Maree”
- Irish: “Loch Ma-ruibhe”
- Irish: “Loch Ma-Ruibhe”
- Italian: “Loch Maree”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loch Maree”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Maree”
- Norwegian: “Loch Maree”
- Polish: “Loch Maree”
- Russian: “Лох-Мари”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Ma-ruibhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Ma-Ruibhe”
- Spanish: “Lago Maree”
- Swedish: “Loch Maree”
- Venetian: “Loch Maree”
- Welsh: “Loch Maree”
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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 Maree”. Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.