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Loch Ness holds more water than all English lakes
Its great depth gives it a volume larger than every lake in England and Wales put together The loch is about 37 kilometres long and reaches roughly 230 metres deep. Because the sides are steep, the surface area is modest for the amount of water stored. Peaty runoff gives the water its dark colour and limits how far light penetrates. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
Where this comes from
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
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Loch Ness holds more water than all English lakes: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Its great depth gives it a volume larger than every lake in England and Wales put together. The figure is taken from Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.