Wallace's Isle

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Wallace's Isle is an island in Loch Lomond, Scotland. [1]

Wallace's Isle is a low, flat island in the mouth of Inveruglas Water, just south of Inveruglas and not far from Inveruglas Isle. [1] It is covered with alder trees.

The island may be named after the Scottish patriot William Wallace, who may have sought refuge on it. [2]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Worsley, Harry (1988). Loch Lomond: The Loch, the Lairds and the Legends. Glasgow: Lindsay Publications. ISBN   978-1-898169-34-5.
  2. "Wallace's Isle - The island of someone called Wallace". Islands of Loch Lomond. Retrieved 26 July 2009.

Coordinates: 56°14′44″N4°42′38″W / 56.24556°N 4.71056°W / 56.24556; -4.71056

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