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The loch is home to a watersports centre with kayaking, sailing, and windsurfing among the activities available. There is also a yacht club and cycling routes around the loch. The loch is at the foot of the Cairngorm mountains, [1] just a few miles from Aviemore. Long stretches of its shoreline are formed of sandy beaches.
The forest park, which was established in 1948, [5] covers 35.7 km 2, [6] of which 21.1 km 2 is designated as a national nature reserve (NNR). [2] Glenmore surrounds Loch Morlich , and is below the rise of the Cairngorms to the south; to the north the park extends to the summit of Meall a' Bhuachaille .
Loch Morlich was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 1 April 1949. [3] Renamed Tutira , she was commissioned into the Royal New Zealand Navy on 19 April 1949. [ 1 ] In 1950, along with HMNZS Pukaki , she sailed for Korea , taking part in the United Nations naval blockade during the Korean War , serving mainly as an escort.
The rest of the funding for the project, thought to total £2.7million, was met from the generous bequest of Mrs Agnes A. P. Barr, of the Irn-Bru Barr family. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2018, the Atlantic 75 lifeboat on station, Colin James Daniel (B-763), one of the last of the class, was withdrawn, and Loch Ness received the new Atlantic 85 Sheila ...
The two lochs together cover an area of 19.3 km 2 (7.5 sq mi) [18] but have a volume of only 0.047 km 3 (0.011 cu mi) as they are so shallow; Loch of Stenness has a maximum depth of 5.2 metres (17 ft). Although flow between the two lochs and the sea can be observed, the water levels only change slightly with the movements of the tide.
The Boat House on Loch a' Bhraoin. Loch a' Bhraoin lies about 7 miles to the south of the head of Loch Broom, and is surrounded by high hills. [4] At the west end of the loch, about 2 miles from the end of the loch is the plateau of a' Chailleach that rises to 998.52metres above sea level. The loch is orientated on a northeast to southwest ...
Loch Lochy (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Lòchaidh) is a large freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] With a mean depth of 70 m (230 ft), it is the third-deepest loch of Scotland.
Of the 1,760-square-mile (4,550 km 2) catchment area, around 9% lies in the Republic of Ireland and 91% in Northern Ireland; [9] altogether 43% of the land area of Northern Ireland is drained into the lough, [10] which itself flows out northwards to the sea via the River Bann. As one of its sources is the Upper Bann, the Lough can itself be ...