The images can be seen by heading to Loch Ness in Google Maps. The loch can then be navigated around in the same way that you would anywhere else, clicking to push the view forward.
The images capture a range of pictures of the surface — including one from above the loch’s deepest point and some from underneath the water — which were taken using help from local people including the Loch Ness & Morar Project and the Caitlin Seaview Survey.
Some of them seem to show something that could, perhaps, be the monster herself. But it’s probably just as likely that it’s a rock, or a log.
Google notes that there are more searches for Loch Ness in its maps “than there are for other U.K. institutions like Buckingham Palace and the Peak District”.
While searching, users are guided around by a small picture of the Loch Ness Monster, rather than the usual little yellow man.
As well as helping the search for the monster hiding beneath the water, Google’s pictures show off some of the most astounding landscapes that are above it The Street View update is accompanied by an animated Google Doodle, showing little aliens driving the ship.
It is a reference and an homage to perhaps the most famous image purporting to be of Nessie, the “Surgeon’s Photograph”.
This photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, one of two pictures known as the ‘surgeon’s photographs,’ was allegedly taken by Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson, though it was later exposed as a hoax (Getty) The Street View features were created to celebrate the anniversary of the photo’s release, Google said, calling the image “the most iconic photo in the history of Loch Ness—and may be one of the most elaborate hoaxes of our age”.
Google’s underwater pictures probably aren’t going to help much in the search — they’re mostly a peaty brown While that image was fake, it is true that no absolute proof has ever been found that Nessie isn’t hiding out in Loch Ness. And so Google says that the new Street View images will allow people to “go in search of Nessie yourself” — or just “enjoy some of the most history-laden and breathtaking imagery the highlands have to offer”.
Google Maps has been used to find the Loch Ness Monster before. But it emerged later that the image — taken from above — was actually just a boat.
A satellite image of a mysterious object (circled) in Loch Ness. It was later revealed to be a boat
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