Loch Achnamoine

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Loch Achnamoine

Loch Achnamoine is a small mountain loch in Sutherland, on the course of the River Helmsdale. The nearest settlement to it is Kinbrace, a small village two and a half miles to the east along a small country road.

The name derives from the Gaelic elements "achadh" and "mòine", meaning "Lake of the Peat-field".[1]

Loch Achnamoine is a drift dam, formed from the last Ice Age.[2] The loch was the site of several biological surveys in the 1990s, identifying several species of xanthidium in its waters[3]

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