Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond
	Loch Lomond, luikin soothward frae Ben Lomond
	Loch Lomond
Location	Wast Dunbartonshire/Argyll and Bute/Stirling, Scotland
Coordinates	56°05′N 4°34′W / 56.083°N 4.567°WCoordinates: 56°05′N 4°34′W / 56.083°N 4.567°W
Teep	freshwater loch, ribbon loch, dimictic
Primary inflows	Endrick Water, Fruin Water, River Falloch
Primar ootflows	River Leven
Catchment area	696 km2 (269 sq mi)
Basin kintras	Scotland
Max. lenth	36.4 km (22.6 mi)
Max. weenth	8 km (5.0 mi)
	71 km2 (27.5 sq mi)
Max. deepth	153 m (502 ft) to create a narrow, fjord-like finger lake. Further south the glaciers were able to spread across the softer Lowland sandstone, leading to a wider body of water that is rarely more than 30 m deep. In the period following the Loch Lomond Readvance the sea level rose, and for several periods Loch Lomond was connected to the sea, with shorelines identified at 13, 12 and 9 metres above sea level (the current loch lies at 8 m above sea level).
	2.6 km3 (0.62 cu mi)
Residence time	1.9 years
Surface elevation	7.9 m (26 ft)
Frozen	Last partial freezing: 2010; Last complete freezin:
Islands	60 (Inchcailloch, Inchmurrin, Inchfad)
Sections/sub-basins	north basin, sooth basin
Settlements	Balloch, Ardlui, Balmaha, Luss, Rowardennan, Tarbet
Ramsar Wetland
Designatit	5 January 1976
Reference no.	73

Loch Lomond (/ˈlɒx ˈloʊmənd/; Scots Gaelic: Loch Laomainn) is a freshwatter loch in Scotland that lies athort the Hieland Boundary Fault, aften seen as the boundary atween the lawlands o Central Scotland and the Hielands.^[1] Traditionally makkin up pairt o the boundary atween the coonties o Stirlingshire an Dunbartonshire, Loch Lomond is split atween the cooncil auries o Stirling, Argyll and Bute an Wast Dunbartonshire. Its soothren shores ur aboot 23 kilometre (14 mi) northwast o the centre o Glesga, the maist muckle city in Scotland.^[2] The Loch maks up pairt o the Loch Lomond an The Trossachs Naitional Pairk that wis creatit in 2002.

It is the lairgest loch in Great Breetain bi surface area an conteens monie islands includin Inchmurrin. Inchmurrian itsel is the lairgest fresh watter island in the Breetish Isles. Loch Lomond is a popular place for leisur activities an is featurt in the weel kent sang The Bonnie Banks o Loch Lomond.

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References

↑ ^a ^b ^c Tom Weir. The Scottish Lochs. pp. 33-43. Published by Constable and Company, 1980. ISBN 0-09-463270-7
↑ ^a ^b Ordnance Survey 1:50000 Landranger Map. Sheet 56. Loch Lomond an Inverary.
↑ ^a ^b ^c "Loch Lomond - A Landscape Fashioned by Geology" (in Inglis). Scottish Natural Heritage. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2016. Retrieved 16 Apryle 2018.
↑ "Loch Lomond iced over. - Images - David R Mitchell Archive" [Loch Lomond icet ower]. davidrmitchell.photoshelter.com (in Inglis). Archived frae the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 7 Apryle 2018.
↑ "Loch Lomond". Ramsar Sites Information Service (in Inglis). Retrieved 25 Apryle 2018.

[weir-1] Tom Weir. The Scottish Lochs. pp. 33-43. Published by Constable and Company, 1980. ISBN 0-09-463270-7

[sheet56-2] Ordnance Survey 1:50000 Landranger Map. Sheet 56. Loch Lomond an Inverary.

[snh-geology-3] "Loch Lomond - A Landscape Fashioned by Geology" (in Inglis). Scottish Natural Heritage. Archived frae the original on 8 Julie 2016. Retrieved 16 Apryle 2018.

[4] "Loch Lomond iced over. - Images - David R Mitchell Archive" [Loch Lomond icet ower]. davidrmitchell.photoshelter.com (in Inglis). Archived frae the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 7 Apryle 2018.

[5] "Loch Lomond". Ramsar Sites Information Service (in Inglis). Retrieved 25 Apryle 2018.

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