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Loch of Stenness : ウィキペディア英語版
Loch of Stenness

The Loch of Stenness is a large brackish loch on Mainland, Orkney〔Wilson, Rev. John ''The Gazetteer of Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 1882) Published by W. & A.K. Johnstone〕 and is named for the parish of Stenness. It is northeast of the town of Stromness, lies immediately to the south of the Loch of Harray and is close to the World Heritage neolithic sites of the Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar. In Old Norse its name was ''Steinnesvatn''.〔Pedersen, Roy (January 1992) ''Orkneyjar ok Katanes'' (map, Inverness, Nevis Print)〕
==Hydrography==
The Loch of Stenness is a sea loch and is the deepest loch on the Mainland, it is slightly smaller in area and volume than the Loch of Harray. It is located at northeast of Stromness,〔 and is the largest brackish lagoon in the UK.〔("Loch of Stennes" ). JNCC. Retrieved 19 June 2011.〕 Its outflow is into the Bay of Ireland and the Hoy Sound at Brig o’ Waithe where tidal currents influence the loch but cause little variation in its level. The loch is connected to the Loch of Harray at the Bridge of Brodgar〔"Lochs of Harray and Stenness
Site of Special Scientific Interest" Midas 1083. SNH〕 and both lochs together cover an area of 〔 making the two combined the ninth largest loch in Scotland by area (as listed by Murray and Pullar (1910)). The Loch of Stenness has a maximum depth of and an average depth of .

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