Loch Màma Explained

Loch Màma
Pushpin Map:Scotland Highland
Coords:56.903°N -5.6898°W[1]
Type:freshwater loch[2]
Inflow:Loch na Creige Duibhe
Outflow:Gleann Màma [3]
Basin Countries:Scotland
Length:0.33miles
Width:0.125miles
Area:17acres
Depth:14.25feet
Max-Depth:44feet
Volume:11000000ft3
Elevation:359feet

Loch Màma is a small freshwater loch in South Morar, Lochaber, in the north west of Scotland. It forms a simple basin and is orientated east to west. It is thought that the adjoining loch Loch na Creige Duibhe and Loch Màma were at one time a single loch. Debris brought down by the Allt Dearg stream has likely caused the lochs to be separated into two bodies of water. The loch is the source of the river Allt a' Mhama.[1]

The loch was surveyed on 11 July 1902[2] by James Parsons and T.R.H. Garrett and later charted[4] as part of the Sir John Murray and Laurence Pullar's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mama, Loch. Gazetteer for Scotland. 15 November 2014.
  2. Web site: Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909, Lochs of the nan Uamh Basin. National Library of Scotland. 15 November 2014.
  3. Web site: Sheet 46 - Ardnamurchan & Loch Shiel. National Library of Scotland. 15 November 2014.
  4. Web site: Lochs Mama and na Creige Duibhe; Loch Dubh (Vol. 4, Plate 56 - Mylar sheet 21). National Library of Scotland. 15 November 2014.