Loch Ness
Loch Ness is a lake or loch which runs for 23 miles along the fault line of the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands. It's a mile wide, very deep, and dark with peat.Photo: Asbestos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Urquhart Castle and Achnahannet.
Urquhart Castle
Castle
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Urquhart Castle is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres southwest of Inverness and two kilometres east of Drumnadrochit.
Achnahannet
Dwelling
Achnahannet is a small hamlet and farm estate located near the northwest shore of Loch Ness in Invernesshire, Highland, Scotland. It lies south of Drumnadrochit along the A82 road, just southwest of Lenie and Urquhart Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drumnadrochit and Inverfarigaig.
Drumnadrochit
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.
Inverfarigaig
Village
Photo: Tony Ayland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Inverfarigaig is a hamlet at the mouth of the River Farigaig, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Lewiston
Village
Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Loch Ness
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Highland, Scotland, UK, outflows via Loch Dochfour to the River Ness and Caledonian Canal
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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”
- 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”
- “Loch Ness”
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