Loch_Snizort

Loch Snizort

Loch Snizort

Sea Loch in Hebrides, Scotland


Loch Snizort (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Snìosort) is a sea loch in the northwest of the Isle of Skye between the Waternish and Trotternish peninsulas. It is fed by the River Snizort, originating in the hills east of Bracadale.[1] The mouth of Loch Snizort gives access to the lower Minch and contains the Ascrib Islands.

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Sea fishing in Loch Snizort yields mackerel, pollock, and ling.[2]

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Footnotes

  1. "Loch Snizort". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
  2. Bradshaw, Mathew (2007). "Highland Fishing". Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.

57°34′N 6°28′W



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