Two-hundred-and-fifty-million years ago movements in the earth’s crust led to the creation of a huge rift across Scotland that today is known as the Great Glen. As the centuries passed the deeper parts of the Glen filled with water and it now exists in the form of three main bodies of water: Loch Oich, Loch Lochy and Loch Ness. For more than a century and a half they have been connected by the sixty-mile-long Caledonian Canal, which provides a passage for small boats from the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
By far the largest of the three lochs is Loch Ness. Nearly twenty-four miles in length and almost a mile wide, it contains more water than any other British lake and at its deepest point, extends to a mind-boggling depth of almost one thousand feet.
Read on...
No comments:
Post a Comment