Loch Skae | |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |
Location: | Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland |
Coords: | 55.1308°N -4.0246°W[1] |
Type: | freshwater loch |
Outflow: | Loch Skae Burn[2] |
Basin Countries: | Scotland |
Length: | 0.75miles[3] |
Width: | 0.25miles |
Area: | 8.3ha |
Depth: | 9.5feet |
Max-Depth: | 35feet |
Volume: | 8000000ft3 |
Shore: | 1.1km (00.7miles) |
Elevation: | 267m (876feet) |
Islands: | 0 |
Loch Skae is a small, upland freshwater loch to the north of Blackcraig Hill, approximately 18miles west of Dumfries, Scotland, 0.5NaN east of Loch Howie, and 1NaN south of the A702.[4] The loch is somewhat circular in shape with a maximum diameter of 0.25miles from north to south.[5] It has an average depth of 9.5feet and is 35feet at its deepest point. The loch was surveyed on 29 July 1903 by James Murray[6] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.