What is "morag"

Morag may refer to:

• Morag (loch monster), a lake monster reported to inhabit Loch Morar in Scotland
• Morąg (German Mohrungen), a city in Warmia-Masuria, Poland
• Morag (moshav), a former Israeli settlement in Gush Katif, evacuated in Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005
• Mòrag, a Scottish female given name, sometimes translated as Sarah.
• Morag, sheep that together with another sheep, Megan, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from differentiated cells
• Morag, a Klingon commander in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Aquiel"
• Morag, a fictional planet in the film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
• Morag Bellingham, a fictional judge and lawyer on Home And Away.

Morag (, lit. Flail) was a moshav and an Israeli settlement in Gush Katif, in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, evacuated in Israel's disengagement of 2005.

Morag is the nickname given to a loch monster believed by some to live in Loch Morar, Scotland. After Nessie, it is among the most written about of Scotland's legendary monsters. "Morag", a Scottish female name, is a pun on the name of the loch. Reported sightings date back to 1887, and included 34 incidents by 1981. Sixteen of these involved multiple witnesses.

The best known sighting, a direct encounter in 1969, involved two local men, Duncan McDonnel and William Simpson, and their boat, with which they claimed to have accidentally struck the creature, prompting it to attack them. McDonnel defended with an oar, and Simpson opened fire with his rifle, whereupon it sank slowly out of sight. They described it as being brown, 25–30 feet long, with rough skin, three dorsal humps rising above the loch's surface, and a head a foot wide, held out of the water.

The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau expanded its search to include Loch Morar in February 1970. Several expeditions with the aim to prove or find the monster have been made, but no evidence for an unknown, large creature has been found as of 2015.