Loch Leven (Kinross)

Largest lake in the Central Lowlands

Loch Leven is a fresh water lake on the eastern border of the Scottish Unitary Authority of Perth and Kinross. In the situated east of Kinross and Milnathort waters is the largest lake in the Central Lowlands. About nine kilometers east lies Glenrothes.

At its widest point, Loch Leven measures about 3.5 km with a maximum length of five kilometers. He thereby has an area of ​​16.1 km2 and a circumference of 16 km. Loch Leven has several small tributaries. The only outflow is the Leven, which leaves the lake in the southeast and empties into the Firth of Forth, 26 km in Leven. In the course of straightening the Leven at the beginning of the 19th century installations were built to regulate the outflow.

In Loch Leven there are several islands, of which about one kilometer long and 500 meters wide, St Serf's Iceland is the largest in the southeast of the lake. On another island ( Castle Iceland ) are the ruins of Loch Leven Castle, where Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, was established in the summer of 1567. Your managed to escape in the spring 1568th

1964 Loch Leven has been put under protection. On the banks of the lake and in particular to St Serf's Iceland winter migratory birds. Also there are nesting sites of various wild birds.

Loch Leven Castle

View of Kinross House on Loch Leven ( Castle)

Satellite image of Loch Leven