Loch Ness

Loch Ness is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands. Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish loch. It is one of the most popular holiday destinations in the UK. Loch Ness is best known for the legendary Loch Ness Monster, also known as "Nessie".
Since it was first reported more than 60 years ago, hundreds claim to have witnessed the Loch Ness Monster, while one scientist after another has brought the latest technology to the loch to probe the phenomenon.
Loch Ness has also been the home to many dramatic incidents from more recent history. Aleister Crowley, the infamous occultist, lived at Boleskin House during the early twentieth century. Rumours of black magic ceremonies and secret tunnels still persist to this day.
Around 500 million years ago tremors opened up the crack that is now Loch Ness as the land to the north moved around 65 miles south westerly.
During the last ice age, which ended about 10 to 12 thousand years ago, the whole area was covered in 4 thousand feet of ice. The only land mark would have been Ben Nevis to the south. It was this ice which gauged out the trough that loch ness lies in. Tremors can still be felt around the loch, the last one in December 1997. The hills surrounding the loch are still rising by 1mm per year.

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