{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox body of water | name = Loch Inver | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = | image = 2011 Schotland Loch Inver 30-05-2011 11-47-36.png | alt = | caption = | image_size = 200px | image_bathymetry = | alt_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = {{gbmapping| NC 0707 2213}} | group = | coordinates = {{coord|58.14590073|-5.27956005|region:GB_type:waterbody|display =inline,title}} | type = Sea Loch | etymology = | part_of = | inflow = | rivers = | outflow = | oceans = | catchment = | basin_countries = Scotland, United Kingdom | agency = | designation = | date-built = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | engineer = | date-flooded = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD}} For man-made and other recent bodies of water --> | length = | width = | area = | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | salinity = Seawater | shore = | elevation = Sea Level | temperature_high = | temperature_low = | frozen = No | islands = | islands_category = | sections = | trenches = | benches = | cities = | pushpin_map=Scotland Sutherland | pushpin_label_position = <!-- left, right, top or bottom --> | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = | website = | reference = }}
'''Loch Inver''' is a {{convert|3.62|km|nmi|frac=64|abbr=off|adj=mid|-long}} sea loch in Assynt, Sutherland and is on the northwest coast of Scotland.<ref name="git">{{cite web |last1=Gittings |first1=Bruce |last2=Munro |first2=David |title=Loch Inver, Highland |url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst4263.html |website=The Gazetteer for Scotland |publisher=School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society |accessdate=19 October 2020}}</ref> The loch meets the coastal embayment of Enard Bay at the north end and The Minch, where it meets Soyea Island at its mouth.<ref name="git"/> The village of Lochinver is at the head of the loch.
==Geography== At the head of the bay is Soyea Island.<ref name="git2">{{cite web |last1=Gittings |first1=Bruce |last2=Munro |first2=David |title=Soyea Island |url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1675.html |website=The Gazetteer for Scotland |publisher=School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society |accessdate=29 April 2021}}</ref> It is small rocky uninhabited island whose radial axis lies on a horizontal line, the same as the bay, and is located {{convert|1+3/4|nmi|km|round=0.5|abbr=on}} from Badnaban on a bearing of broadly east if slightly north and {{convert|2|nmi|km|0|abbr=on}} south-southwest of Achmelvich.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept|title=West Coast of Scotland Pilot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMlBAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=29 April 2021|year=1911|page=69}}</ref><ref name="git2"/>
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="180px" widths="450px"> File:Navigation beacon, Loch Inver - geograph.org.uk - 2366870.jpg|Navigation beacon far out on Loch Inver File:River Inver enters Loch Inver - geograph.org.uk - 3796538.jpg|River Inver entering Loch Inver at dusk File:Loch_Inver_Alan_Reid.jpg|Loch Inver from the west, the inner sea loch
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==References== {{Reflist}}
Inver Category:Inver catchment Category:Landforms of Sutherland Inver