Awe, Loch, an Argyllshire lake, with Loch Awe station and hotel near its foot, 22 miles E. of Oban. Lying 118 feet above sea-level, it extends 22f miles north-eastward, is from 3 furlongs to 3 1/2 miles broad, covers 15 1/2 sq. m., and has a maximum depth of 102 feet. The scenery is most striking at the north-east end - originally the head - of the lake, where the water is studded with numerous wooded islets, overshadowed by towering and rugged mountains, the chief Ben Cruachan (3689 feet). On a rocky peninsula, in the north end of the lake, stands Kilchurn Castle, once a fortress of great strength, built about 1440 by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy. The waters of the lake are carried off at its north-west end by the brawling river Awe, which, after a course of 5 miles, enters Loch Etive at Bunawe. The magnificent 'Pass of Brander,' through which the road and railway run beneath the shoulder of Ben Cruachan, was the scene of a conflict in 1308 between Robert the Bruce and the Macdougals of Lorn, in which that clan was all but exterminated. At the north-east end of the loch it receives the waters of the Orchy and Strae.