Loch Achnamoine is a small mountain loch, situated on the River Helmsdale in the

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally, ''upland'' refers to a range of hills, typically from up to , while ''highland'' is usually reserved for range ...

council area of

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

. The nearest settlement to it is

Kinbrace Kinbrace is a small village in Sutherland in the Highland council area of Scotland. It lies at the junction of the A897 and B871 and is from Helmsdale by road. The village has a station on the Far North Line (also named Kinbrace). Few people ...

, a small village 2.5 miles (4 km) east, along a small country road. The name derives from the

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

elements ''"achadh"'' and ''"mòine"'', meaning "Lake of the Peat-field". Loch Achnamoine is a ''drift dam'', formed from the last glacial period in Scotland. The loch was the site of several biological surveys in the 1990s, identifying several species of xanthidium in its waters{{Cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKAWAQAAIAAJ&q=loch+achnamoine, title=Archiv Für Hydrobiologie: Monographische Beiträge, date=1995, publisher=E. Schweizerbart, language=en

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