Loch Shin

The Loch Shin ( gäl. hole SIN) is a lake in the remote northern Highlands in Scotland. It is 27 km long and an average width of 1 km, the widest point measures just under 2 km. According to measurements in 1902, the then greatest depth of the lake was 162 feet (about 49 m). The water level was, however, raised by a dam project in the 1950s to about 10 m. The Loch Shin is the largest lake Sutherland.

The lake is rich in fish and in the fall migrate thousands of salmon up the hole. The main town on the lakeshore is Lairg, but there are some hamlets around the lake, which rarely consist of more than five houses. People today live mainly from agriculture and forestry, partly on fishing. So far, tourism has hardly found its way into the area, which is located on both the remoteness and the fact that most tourists prefer the streets of the west coast of Scotland and then back along the east coast.

The surroundings of the Loch Shin is characterized by moors. In the northeast, there are large forests, otherwise Loch Shin by Heide and rarely surrounded by fields. Nine ruins are around the lake and on the islands in the hole, as well as some abandoned houses of the crofters ( small farmers ).

Between Loch Shin and the Dornoch Firth to Carbisdale Castle is.

Loch Shin is one of the main plot points of Wolfgang hollow leg novel series The wizards of Salem in the book The Witch of Salem.