Skip to content
The Great Britain Guide

Natural landmarks · Scottish Islands

Vasa Loch

Vasa Loch — lake on Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK.

Vasa Loch

Photo by C Michael Hogan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) licence

About

Vasa Loch is a natural landmark in islands. (Lagoon on Orkney islands.) Wikipedia notes: "Vasa Loch is a brackish lagoon in southwestern Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. This water body has been shown on early maps of the island in a very similar shape and size to its current geometry, separated from the North Sea by a narrow strip of raised beach.(Masters, 1840) Vasa Loch is fed by small rivulets and upland springs that rise on the western part of the island's western spur.". Coordinates 59.0496°, -2.9225°. Sources are credited at the bottom of this page.

Coordinates
59.0496, -2.9225

Sources

Nearby