Loch Ness (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Nis) is a large, deep lake in Scotland. The loch is 36.3 kilometres long and 1.6 kilometres wide at its widest part. The greatest depth of the lake is 226 metres. Loch Ness lies in hilly terrain. Because peat and peat run continuously into the lake from these hills, the water is very turbid.
Loch Ness is located in the Great Glen (the great valley), a valley created because it is the fault line between two earth plates (moving in opposite directions to each other). The lake, together with some other lakes and a lock system (Neptune's Staircase) located in the south-west, forms the Caledonian Canal. The area north of the lake, which is part of the Scottish Highlands, was part of the Americas before the continental shift.
It is the second largest lake in Scotland after Loch Lomond in area, but the largest in volume: all the water of all the lakes in Wales and England would fit into Loch Ness.
                                
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