LOCH NESS

Loch Ness is a large, deep, freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands extending for

approximately 37 kilometres southwest of Inverness. Loch Ness is the largest body of

freshwater in Britain and contains more water than all the lakes of England and Wales

combined.

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Loch Ness is best known for alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, also known

affectionately as Nessie. Nessie the Loch Ness Monster was first sited by Saint Columba

in 565AD.

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The Great Glen is the deep diagonal fault line that runs across Scotland from Fort William

in the south-west to Inverness in the north-east. The fault movement shattered the

granite, so that glaciers in later ice ages carved out a deep valley, which filled with rivers

and lakes when the ice melted. Loch Ness is the longest and deepest of these.