Editing Loch (section)

==Lochs outside Scotland and Ireland==
As "loch" is a common Gaelic word, it is found as the root of several [[Manx language|Manx]] place names.{{citation needed|date= May 2024}}

The United States naval port of [[Naval Station Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]], on the south coast of the main [[Hawaii]]an island of [[Oahu|Oʻahu]], is one of a complex of sea inlets. It contains three subareas called 'lochs' named East, Middle, and West<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pearl Harbor Ablaze Again: The West Loch Disaster |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/west-loch.html |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=public2.nhhcaws.local |language=en-US}}</ref> or Kaihuopala‘ai, Wai‘awa, and Komoawa.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-15 |title=Pearl Lochs |url=https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/pearl-lochs/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=Images of Old Hawaiʻi |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Loch Raven Reservoir]] is a reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland.

[[Brenton Loch]] in the [[Falkland Islands]] is a sea loch, near [[Lafonia]], [[East Falkland]].

In the Scottish settlement of [[Glengarry County, Ontario|Glengarry County]] in present-day [[Eastern Ontario]], there is a lake called Loch Garry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lochgarrylakeassociation.ca/lgla-action/ |title=Lochgarrylakeassociation - LGLA Action |access-date=2012-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020051326/http://www.lochgarrylakeassociation.ca/lgla-action/ |archive-date=2013-10-20 }}</ref> Loch Garry was named by those who settled in the area, [[Clan MacDonell of Glengarry]], after the well-known loch their clan is from, [[Loch Garry]] in Scotland. Similarly, lakes named [[Loch Broom]], [[Big Loch]], [[Greendale Loch]], and [[Loch Lomond (Cape Breton)|Loch Lomond]] can be found in [[Nova Scotia]], along with [[Loch Leven, Newfoundland and Labrador|Loch Leven]] in [[Newfoundland]], and [[Loch Leven, Saskatchewan|Loch Leven]] in [[Saskatchewan]].

[[Loch Fyne (Greenland)|Loch Fyne]] is a [[fjord]] in [[Greenland]] named by [[Douglas Clavering]] in 1823.