Loch Inver is a

sea loch ''Loch'' ( ) is a word meaning "lake" or "inlet, sea inlet" in Scottish Gaelic, Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English. In Irish contexts, it often appears in the anglicized form "lough". A small loch is sometimes calle ...

Assynt Assynt ( or ) is a sparsely populated area in the south-west of Sutherland, lying north of Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland. Assynt is known for its landscape and its remarkable mountains, which have led to the area, along with neighbour ...

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and is on the northwest coast of

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. The loch meets the coastal embayment of Enard Bay at the north end and

The Minch The Minch () is a strait in north-west Scotland that separates the mainland from Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides. It was known as ("Scotland's firth") in Old Norse. The Minch's southern extension, which separates Skye from the midd ...

, where it meets Soyea Island at its mouth. The village of

Lochinver Lochinver (''Loch an Inbhir'' in Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic) is a village at the head of the sea loch Loch Inver, on the coast in the Assynt district of Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Highland, Scotland. A few miles north-east is Loch Assynt which ...

is at the head of the loch.

Geography

At the head of the bay is Soyea Island. It is small rocky uninhabited island whose radial axis lies on a horizontal line, the same as the bay, and is located from Badnaban on a bearing of broadly east if slightly north and south-southwest of Achmelvich.

Gallery

File:Navigation beacon, Loch Inver - geograph.org.uk - 2366870.jpg, Navigation beacon far out on Loch Inver File:River Inver enters Loch Inver - geograph.org.uk - 3796538.jpg, River Inver entering Loch Inver at dusk File:Loch_Inver_Alan_Reid.jpg, Loch Inver from the west, the inner sea loch

References

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