Loch Ness

Loch Ness is a lake or loch which runs for 23 miles along the fault line of in the Scottish Highlands. It's a mile wide, very deep, and dark with peat.
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  • Lake
  • …lies at an elevation of 52 feet (16 metres)
  • Description: lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows via Loch Dochfour to the River Ness and Caledonian Canal
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Urquhart Castle and Achnahannet.
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is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the of .
is a small hamlet and farm estate located…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Drumnadrochit and Inverfarigaig.
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is a village in , the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands.
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is a hamlet at the mouth of the River…
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is a small linear village, situated less than…

Loch Ness

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Latitude
57.3° or 57° 18′ north
Longitude
-4.45° or 4° 27′ west
Open location code
9C9Q8H22+22
Geo­Names ID
2641805
Wiki­data ID
Q49650

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Loch Ness” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Loch Ness”
  • Arabic: “لوخ نس”
  • Armenian: “Լոխ Նես”
  • Armenian: “Լոխ–Նես”
  • Asturian: “llagu Ness”
  • Asturian: “Loch Ness”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lox Ness gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lox Ness”
  • Basque: “Ness”
  • Bavarian: “Loch Ness”
  • Belarusian: “Возера Лох-Нес”
  • Belarusian: “Лох-Нес”
  • Belarusian: “Лох-Нэс”
  • Bengali: “লখ নেস”
  • Breton: “Loch Nis”
  • Bulgarian: “Лох Нес”
  • Burmese: “လော့ခ်နက်စ်”
  • Catalan: “Llac Ness”
  • Catalan: “loch Ness”
  • Catalan: “Loch Ness”
  • Cebuano: “Loch Ness”
  • Chinese: “内斯湖”
  • Chinese: “尼斯湖”
  • Chuvash: “Лох-Несс”
  • Croatian: “Loch Ness”
  • Czech: “Loch Ness”
  • Danish: “Loch Ness”
  • Dutch: “Loch Ness”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره لوخ نس”
  • Esperanto: “Loch Ness”
  • Estonian: “Loch Ness”
  • Faroese: “Loch Ness”
  • Finnish: “Loch Ness”
  • French: “loch Ness”
  • French: “Loch Ness”
  • Galician: “Lago Ness”
  • Georgian: “ლოხ-ნესი”
  • German: “Loch Ness”
  • German: “Loch Neß”
  • German: “Loch Nis”
  • Greek: “Λοχ Νες”
  • Hausa: “Loch Ness”
  • Hebrew: “לוך נס”
  • Hungarian: “Loch Ness”
  • Icelandic: “Loch Ness”
  • Ido: “Loch Ness”
  • Indonesian: “Loch Ness”
  • Irish: “Loch Nis”
  • Italian: “Loch Ness”
  • Japanese: “ネス湖”
  • Kalaallisut: “Loch Ness”
  • Kazakh: “Лох-Несс”
  • Korean: “네스 호”
  • Korean: “네스호”
  • Latvian: “Lohness”
  • Lithuanian: “Loch Nesas”
  • Macedonian: “Лох Нес”
  • Malay: “Loch Ness”
  • Malay: “Tasik Ness”
  • Malayalam: “ലോക് നെസ് തടാകം”
  • Mongolian: “Лох Несс нуур”
  • Northern Frisian: “Loch Ness”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loch Ness”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loch Ness”
  • Norwegian: “Loch Ness”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Loch Ness”
  • Persian: “لاخ نس”
  • Persian: “لخ‌نس”
  • Polish: “Loch Ness”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Ness”
  • Portuguese: “Loch Ness”
  • Quechua: “Loch Ness”
  • Romanian: “Loch Ness”
  • Russian: “Лох-Несс”
  • Russian: “Несс (озеро)”
  • Scots: “Loch Ness”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Nis”
  • Serbian: “Лох Нес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loch Ness”
  • Slovak: “Loch Ness”
  • Slovenian: “Loch Ness”
  • Spanish: “Lago Ness”
  • Spanish: “Loch Ness”
  • Swedish: “Loch Ness”
  • Tatar: “Lox-Ness”
  • Tatar: “Лох-Несс”
  • Thai: “ล็อกเนสส์”
  • Turkish: “Loch Ness”
  • Ukrainian: “Лох-Несс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Loch Ness”
  • Urdu: “لوچ نیس”
  • Uzbek: “Lox-ness”
  • Uzbek: “Lox-Ness”
  • Venetian: “Loch Ness”
  • Vietnamese: “Loch Ness”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Loch Ness”
  • Welsh: “Loch Ness”
  • Western Frisian: “Loch Ness”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼斯湖”

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