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Loch na Creige Duibhe (Lochaber)

Coordinates: 56°54′10″N 5°40′28″W / 56.90283°N 5.67452°W / 56.90283; -5.67452
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Loch na Creige Duibhe
Head of Loch na Creige Duibhe
Head of Loch na Creige Duibhe
Loch na Creige Duibhe is located in Highland
Loch na Creige Duibhe
Loch na Creige Duibhe
LocationMorar, Lochaber, Scotland
Coordinates56°54′10″N 5°40′28″W / 56.90283°N 5.67452°W / 56.90283; -5.67452[1]
Typefreshwater loch[2]
Primary inflowsLoch na Creige Duibhe[2]
Primary outflowsLoch Màma[2]
Basin countriesScotland
Max. length0.8 mi (1.3 km)[2]
Max. width0.12 mi (0.19 km)[2]
Surface area36.25 acres (0.1467 km2)[2]
Average depth42.5 ft (13.0 m)[2]
Max. depth93 ft (28 m)[2]
Water volume52,000,000 cu ft (1,500,000 m3)[2]
Surface elevation359.7 ft (109.6 m)[2]

Loch na Creige Duibhe is a small freshwater loch in South Morar, Lochaber, in the West Highlands of Scotland. It is orientated east to west and drains into Loch Màma to the west. It is thought that Loch Màma and Loch na Creige Duibhe were at one time a single loch. Debris brought down by the Allt Dearg stream has likely caused the lochs to be separated into two bodies of water.

The loch was surveyed on 11 July 1902[2] by James Parsons and T.R.H. Garrett and later charted[3] as part of Sir John Murray and Laurence Pullar's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.

References

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  1. ^ "Creige Duibhe, Loch na". Gazetteer of Scotland. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909, Lochs of the nan Uamh Basin". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Lochs Mama and na Creige Duibhe; Loch Dubh (Vol. 4, Plate 56 - Mylar sheet 21)". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

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