Mochrum Loch
Appearance
Mochrum loch | |
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Location | Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland |
Coordinates | 54°50′32″N 4°38′57″W / 54.842300°N 4.649300°WCoordinates: 54°50′32″N 4°38′57″W / 54.842300°N 4.649300°W |
Teep | freshwatter loch |
Primary inflows | Castle Loch burn |
Primar ootflows | Watter o Malzie |
Basin kintras | Scotland |
Max. lenth | 1.5 mi (2.4 km)[1] |
Max. weenth | 0.33 mi (0.53 km)[1] |
92 ha (230 acre)[2] | |
Average deepth | 7 ft (2.1 m)[1] |
Max. deepth | 13 ft (4.0 m)[1] |
68,000,000 cu ft (1,900,000 m3)[1] | |
Shore lenth1 | 10.2 km (6.3 mi)[2] |
Surface elevation | 75 m (246 ft)[2] |
Islands | 8 islets[2] |
1 Shore lenth is nae a weel-defined meisur. |
Mochrum Loch is a lairge, unraiglar shapen, shallae, freshwatter loch in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It lies aboot 8 mile wast o the toun o Wigtoun.[1] The loch haes several rocky islets.
Vizzie
[eedit | eedit soorce]The loch wis vizzied[1] in 1903 bi James Murray an later chairtit[3] as pairt o John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Frest-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b c d e f g "Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909, Lochs of the Cree Basin". National Library of Scotland. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ↑ a b c d "Mochrum loch". British lakes. British Lakes. Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ↑ "Lochs Castle & Mochrum (Vol. 5, Plate 41) - Bathymetrical Survey, 1897-1909 - National Library of Scotland". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 16 September 2015.