Loch Eriboll

58.516666666667 - 4.6833333333333Koordinaten: 58 ° 31 '0 "N, 4 ° 41 ' 0 " W

The Loch Eriboll ( gäl.: Hole Euraboil ) is a 16 km long and 2-3 km wide inlet ( fjord ) in the County of Sutherland ( Highlands ) on the north coast of Scotland. It has been used for centuries as a deep-water anchorage, as it is protected from the stormy sea between Cape Wrath and the Pentland Firth. Its name derives from the village from Eriboll on its eastern coast. Nearby Bronze and Iron Age remains have been found; including the basement Portnancon and the well-preserved Atlantic roundhouse Tigh na Fiarnain on the hills its western coast.

Submarine rendezvous

At the end of World War II, located in the North Atlantic, German submarines were asked to run the Loch Eriboll, there to surrender to the Allies. Between May 10th and 25th, 1945, here at least 33 submarines found a whose armament was mostly dismantled on the spot and sunk in the fjord.