During the Second World War Loch Morar was used as a training centre for the Special Operations Executive, using various houses around Morar and Arisaig. Loch Morar is a remote area, at that time easily closed to the outside world, with terrain suited to testing personnel in the dark arts of ‘ungentlemanly warfare’. See Arisaig and the Special Operations Executive by Henrik Chart of the Land, Sea and Islands Centre in Arisaig and Commando Country (National Museums Scotland, 2007) by Stuart Allan).
Morar is Scotland’s deepest loch, at 310m, and is the fifth largest loch in Scotland. Its outflow at the western end is one of the shortest rivers in Britain and has a hydroelectric power station that was built in 1948. When the Metcalfs lived there, the loch was well stocked with salmon, sea trout and brown trout. The loch is also said to be inhabited by a monster called Morag, a cousin to Nessie.
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