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Myth or monster? Explore Loch Ness with Street View

Like the world's best legends, the Loch Ness Monster transcends the everyday and exists at the edges of possibility. It rises above the sightings and the hoaxes; the claims and counter-claims; the tourism, the nationalism—and even the assassination plots. Information technology lives in the telling of stories. Whether or not you believe, most people agree a romanticized vision of the animate being that, legend has information technology, plumbs the depths of the Loch. Affectionately known as "Nessie," she exists in sociology, dances in childrens' imaginations, and seeps into our gild and teachings, inspiring everything from pop music to pop culture to pulp fiction.

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In 1934, the "Surgeon'southward Photograph" was released, challenge to show the monster in the misty waters of the lake. Information technology's the most iconic photo in the history of Loch Ness—and may exist one of the most elaborate hoaxes of our age. Today, to celebrate the anniversary of its release, we're bringing 360-caste Street View imagery of Loch Ness to Google Maps, so yous tin can go in search of Nessie yourself.

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Sail across the freshwater lake and accept in its haunting dazzler, made darker nevertheless by the peat particles found in its waters. Allow the Loch unlock the spirit of your imagination, where the rippling water, tricks of the calorie-free, and drifting logs bring the legend of Nessie to life. Adrian Polish, leader of the Loch Ness & Morar Project, has been engaged in fieldwork in the Highlands since 1973 and was an integral part of the Street View collection. As a true Loch Ness skilful, Smoothen has logged more than one,000 Nessie sightings and offers scientific explanations for why people claim to have seen Scotland's mysterious cryptid.

Formed of a series of interrelated bodies of water, including the River Oich to the south and the Bona Narrows to the northward, Loch Ness stretches for 23 miles southwest of Inverness. Although information technology'south neither the largest Scottish loch past surface surface area nor depth, it is the largest by book, containing more freshwater than all the lakes of England and Wales combined. And at nigh 800 feet deep, there's an entire world below the surface, giving ascension to the Nessie legend.

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A diver from the Catlin Seaview Survey collecting underwater imagery of Loch Ness

To have you lot on a bout of what lies below, our partners at the Catlin Seaview Survey dived deep under the surface of the lake, collecting imagery along the fashion. Yous can imagine Nessie nestling within these nighttime, peat-filled waters, waiting for the right moment to breach the surface into the Scottish sunlight above.

Wherever yous stand on the Nessie debate, the legend lives on—even in the digital era. There are more searches for Loch Ness than there are for other U.Chiliad. institutions like Buckingham Palace and the Peak District. And as nosotros celebrate Loch Ness with today's Doodle, we hope yous can enjoy some of the about history-laden and breathtaking imagery the highlands have to offering with Street View in Google Maps.