Loch Ness is the deepest lake in Scotland at 226 m (740 ft). It is so deep that the BT Tower in London would be completely submerged if dropped into the lake.
It is located in the ‘Great Glen’, a geological fault formed by glaciers during an earlier ice age and stretching from Inverness to Fort William.
The lake has about 40 rivers and burns (the Scottish word for stream), most of which are small and flow into it.
Loch Ness contains more water than all the other lakes or lochs in Scotland, England, and Wales combined.
The lake is about twenty-two and a half miles long and runs south from Dores, which is 5 miles outside of Inverness, to Fort William.
The volume of water contained in Loch Ness is so great that 10 times the world’s population could be submerged under water.
The bottom of the lake could be compared to a bowling green due to its smooth surface.
It is said that in AD 565, San Colomba saw the Loch Ness monster, making his sighting the first recorded sighting in history. He allegedly rescued a man who was being attacked by the monster.
The ‘surgeon photo’ was taken on April 19, 1934 by a British gynecologist named Robert Keneth Wilson, and is the most famous photograph ever taken of the monster.
Due to the large amount of peat on the ground surrounding the lake, the water is very cloudy and visibility is normally restricted to about 4 inches.