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The loch also hosted, if that is the word, the battle fleet of King Hakkon of Norway on his way south to the disastrous ( for the Norwegians ) battle of Largs in 1266 ; the small harbour of Portnacon has variously been translated as " Port na coin " " the port of the dogs " or a corruption of " Port Hakkon ", " Hakkon's Port ".
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The causeways themselves may have been slightly submerged ; this has been interpreted as a device to make access difficult yet this can also simply be a by-product of loch level fluctuations over the ensuing centuries or indeed millennia.
The AAS also videotaped an object on the floor of the loch resembling a carcass, found marine clam-shells and a fungus-like organism not normally found in fresh water lochs, which they suggest gives some connection to the sea and a possible entry for Nessie.
Boat wakes can also produce strange effects in the loch.
Although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan ( so spelled also in Scottish Gaelic ; in Irish it is spelled lochán ).
As " loch " is a common Gaelic word, it is also found as the root of several Manx placenames.
* Falls of Lora, also in Scotland is an unusual rapids in the sea that is created when the waters in Loch Etive pour out through the narrow mouth of the loch over a rocky shelf.
The reserve is also home to greylag geese on the loch and in summer corncrakes on the machair.
It can also be used as a surname, with various pronunciations: law, loch, low, lowe, loth, loff, lohguh.
The form loch is also used in Irish English, Lough is also used for some small bodies of water in the far north of England.
At the end of the loch a road runs past the Benmore Botanic Garden and Arboretum ( also known as the Younger Botanic Gardens ) to scenic Loch Eck and on towards Oban.
The loch also has an arm, Loch Goil, on its western side.
It is now a popular area for sport diving. The Ardentinny Outdoor Education Centre ( on the other bank ) also uses the loch for watersports.
The waters of the loch were also thought to have curative effects, with being submerged in the water thought to be a cure for lunacy.
Early on, it became a popular spot for trout fishing after Queen Victoria visited the Loch Maree Hotel at Talladale in 1877, a visit which also led to the naming of ' Victoria Falls ', an attractive waterfall feeding the loch from Beinn Eighe on its south side.
The loch also has two separate populations of Arctic charr ( Salvelinus alpinus ) about which little is known.
The island burial place was also shared by the Camerons of Callart, on the north shore of the loch, the Stewarts of Ballachulish and Appin and other local families.
Jim Slotek of Sun Media called Willie the ninth best Simpsons supporting character, and also made a Top Ten quotes list, which included Willie's quote " Och, back to the loch wi ' ye, Nessie ," from " Selma's Choice ".
The name Lochcarron is also applied to the collection of small settlements strung out along Loch Carron, a sea loch on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty.
This does not necessarily correspond with conditions today, as the same source also notes that the nearby beach head was at the time saturated and " oozing water " indeed it says that the loch had dropped at least since 1817, only 37 years earlier.
The loch was also used in the filming of the movie The Master of Ballantrae starring Errol Flynn
Although best known for its seabirds, the Reserve also has flower rich grasslands and a freshwater loch.
The couple made their home at Lochleven Castle, which was a fortress situated on an island in the middle of the loch, and where his widowed mother also resided.
** Moy Hall, also near the loch and the ancestral home of the chiefs of Clan Mackintosh
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In 2011 the loch hosted Exercise Joint Warrior, the largest war games staged in the UK, involving the navy's new flagship, the assault ship HMS Bulwark.
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There are wake sightings that occur when the loch is dead calm with no boat nearby.
On 2 May 2001, two conger eels were found on the shore of the loch ; as conger eels are saltwater animals and Loch Ness is freshwater, it is believed that they were put there to be seen as " Mini-Nessies ".
R. T. Gould wrote " A grey seal has a long and surprisingly extensible neck ; it swims with a paddling action ; its colour fits the bill ; and there is nothing surprising in its being seen on the shore of the loch, or crossing a road.
* The loch is only about 10, 000 years old, dating to the end of the last ice age.
In Ireland it has been anglicised as lough, although this is pronounced the same way as loch.
Looking down Loch Long, which is a sea loch
Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is Loch Ness, although there are other large examples such as Loch Awe, Loch Lomond and Loch Tay.
The word " loch " is sometimes used as a shibboleth to identify natives of England, because the fricative sound is used in Scotland whereas most English people incorrectly pronounce the word like " lock ".
Brenton Loch in the Falkland Islands is a sea loch, near Lafonia, East Falkland.
Loch Garry is named by the settlers that settled in the area, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry after the well known loch where their clan is from Loch Garry in Scotland.
Of Loch Sgadabhagh on North Uist it has been said that " there is probably no other loch in Britain which approaches Loch Scadavay in irregularity and complexity of outline.
" Loch Bì is South Uist's largest loch and at long it all but cuts the island in two.
Culhwch (, with the final consonant of Scottish " loch "), in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen ( the earliest of the medieval Welsh tales usually, but erroneously, referred to collectively as the Mabinogion ).
Rowardennan is the furthest north road access which is available on the east shore of the loch from the south.
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However, due to increasing Anglicisation and globalisation, today not even all Scots can pronounce the fricative and in attempting to say the word " loch ", they instead make the sound of the word " lock "-i. e.
It is situated at the head of Loch Goil, where the Goil river, which rises on nearby Ben Donich and Beinn an Lochain, flows into the loch ( Scottish word for Lake ).
Lough is a Hiberno-English form of the Old Irish word loch, which means lake, or bay.
The name Amlwch – a reference to the site of the town's harbour, Porth Amlwch – derives from Welsh am (" about, on or around ") and llwch ( an old word meaning " inlet, creek "-similar to the Gaelic word " loch " for a body of water ).
The loch derives its name from the term cateran from the Gaelic ceathairne, a collective word meaning cattle thief or possibly peasantry.
The name of the loch comes from àrd, the Scottish Gaelic word for high.
Brenton Loch ( inlet ) and Loch Head Pond are also rare examples of the Scottish word " loch " being applied to bodies of water outside Europe.
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